esy VS rescript-compiler

Compare esy vs rescript-compiler and see what are their differences.

esy

package.json workflow for native development with Reason/OCaml (by esy)

rescript-compiler

The compiler for ReScript. (by rescript-lang)
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esy rescript-compiler
8 93
837 6,411
0.2% 1.2%
9.2 9.5
6 days ago 4 days ago
Reason OCaml
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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esy

Posts with mentions or reviews of esy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-07.
  • Compiler Development: Rust or OCaml?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2023
    As someone who wrote a fair amount of Rust and OCaml code, I have to agree with the author.

    While working at Routine (YC W21), I was tasked with porting our core library to iOS to minimize code duplication. This was a lucky opportunity to write something resembling a compiler: it took in schemas described with our in-house data exchange library and generated C (for FFI) and Swift code (for the end-users, i.e., iOS developers).

    Since Routine uses OCaml for everything (which was a big motivator for joining the company—I wanted to see how that would work out), I wrote it in OCaml. The end result is a 3-5k LOC project. It's by no means a full compiler, but it was lots of fun to write. The language got in the way incredibly rarely. On average, it made my life a lot easier.

    We did encounter our fair share of issues, mostly due to the cross-compilation tooling (we initially used esy [1], flirted with Nix, and eventually switched to opam-cross-ios [2]), third-party libraries, and intricacies of FFI. Those do take their toll on sanity.

    [1]: https://github.com/esy/esy/

  • OCaml 5.0 release (including multicore and effects)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2022
    What's the current status of Esy? https://github.com/esy/esy

    Any plans to backport its design back to Opam?

  • 2021 at OCamlPro
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2022
    It's great to hear that Opam is making progress! I just wished that it would be more deeply integrated with Dune. A package manager that doesn't build is not very useful to be honest. Currently the only way to not have to care about switches and be able to clearly specify dependencies is to use the esy package manager[1] (which had lock files a while ago).

    [1]: https://github.com/esy/esy/

  • PR to Merge Multicore OCaml
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2021
    If you start a project today I would really try to use esy (https://esy.sh/)

    I actually don’t use it myself but it seems to bring the modern programming language experience to OCaml

  • Getting Started with OCaml in 2021 · Perpetually Curious Blog
    2 projects | /r/ocaml | 1 Nov 2021
    Another alternative is to use esy but I'm clearly biased here....
    2 projects | /r/ocaml | 1 Nov 2021
    Here is link number 1 - Previous text "esy"
  • Frustrated by lacking cross platform support (hoping to be wrong)
    4 projects | /r/ocaml | 1 Aug 2021
    Alternatively, you can use esy.sh for a simpler setup/build process (it does not require running in a Cygwin shell).
  • Opam, PNPM, Node, Esy, Docker, ReactNative on 128GB Mac
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Jan 2021
    Running esy does not work. Apparently, my environment does not know that it is there. Anyone know what is going on here? I have posted this in the discussion for esy@next here. I will get back to you all when I figure this out.

rescript-compiler

Posts with mentions or reviews of rescript-compiler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing esy and rescript-compiler you can also consider the following projects:

svelte-wasm

Elm - Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.

TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

Fable: F# |> BABEL - F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust and Dart Compiler

purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript

reason - Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems

opam - opam is a source-based package manager. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow.

openapi-generator - OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

melange - A mixture of tooling combined to produce JavaScript from OCaml & Reason

tsdx - Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

dream - Tidy, feature-complete Web framework

ocaml - The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries