anyway, the last bit from my notes, is a bit more personal:

I’ve always been harping, for years, on how #OCaml and #JavaScript VMs are just such a surprisingly-fantastic, low-impedance match (see the whole #Melange, #BuckleScript, #ReScript, category — they're _fantastic_ to use in practice); …

but now i’m learning that Wasm is … basically OCaml’s semantics, EVEN MORE DIRECTLY, in a bunch of cases, lmao.

@musicmatze If you like Rust and you're thinking of using a JS-compiling language, you might have a look at #ReScript. It's a functional language with good pattern matching syntax, very similar to Rust.

Noob question, but has anyone gotten #rescript working on #NixOS?

ReScript 10.1: Async/await & better Promise support, JSX v4, and more https://rescript-lang.org/blog/release-10-1 #rescript #react #js

@Spyder Yep! I bounced after #ReScript especially because a lot of the simmering open source projects built on #ReasonML died afterward. I actually just switched over to writing plain #Ocaml!

I think that #TypeScript is going to herald a great new era of different languages targeting JavaScript as a transpile target. I loved #ReasonML, but the rift into #ReScript seems to have basically killed it. But perhaps more than anything, I am hoping that the normalization of the transpile process will accelerate acceptance and growth of #WebAssembly. We're already not writing real JavaScript.

I think that #TypeScript is going to herald a great new era of different languages targeting JavaScript as a transpile target. I loved #ReasonML, but the rift into #ReScript seems to have basically killed it. But perhaps more than anything, I am hoping that the normalization of the transpile process will accelerate acceptance and growth of #WebAssembly. We're already not writing real JavaScript.

@musicmatze try #TypeScript or Facebook #Flow or #ReScript

I'm surprised at how little activity there is on the #rescript tag even relative to other small languages like Idris.

More of you should try #ReScript! It's a delightful little #javascript-compiling #functional #OCaml for those of us who like C-like visible delimiting characters!

#introduction

Howdy, floss.social! I'm not new to mastodon, but I'm migrating from another server.

I'm a #python #dataEngineer professionally, but as a hobbyist I'm a #functionalProgrammer in #elm #rescript #scala.

I write tutorials on those subjects on https://webbureaucrat.gitlab.io/ and Dev.to. (RSS feed link at the bottom if you would like.)