# create a basic factorial calculator
      factorial 0 => 1
      factorial n => n * factorial n - 1
      
      
      # call the factorial function
      factorial 5 #=> 120
      

Cream & Sugar (also called C&S) is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript. It has a couple of benefits over pure JavaScript as well as other "meta-JavaScript" dialects:

1. C&S has a beautiful, easy-to-read syntax inspired in part by Elixir and Haskell, but retaining all of JavaScript's familiar data forms.
2. C&S provides JSX-like structures as part of the native syntax. And if you aren't using React, you can still use these structures to generate DOM elements.
3. C&S makes it extremely simple to spin up child processes in both Node.js and the browser as well as pass messages between them.
4. C&S implements all the best parts of functionalism including immutable data, pattern matching, arity requirements, and recursion, all in a forgiving way and with minimal performance overhead.

If this sounds interesting to you, we'd recommend reading on. Why not start with data types?