prepack
rescript-compiler
prepack | rescript-compiler | |
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8 | 95 | |
14,385 | 6,472 | |
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0.0 | 9.5 | |
about 2 years ago | 7 days ago | |
JavaScript | OCaml | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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prepack
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Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
Hello HN,
I'm considering the development of a new programming language, drawing inspiration from Rust's strengths, with a focus on compiling to JavaScript. Here what I'm considering are some key features:
Strict Type System
Algebraic Data Types
*Unsafe Mode for JS/TS Interaction*: Facilitate direct interaction with existing JavaScript and TypeScript code.
No Null Usage: Option/Result patterns to avoid null.
Trait Implementation
Backend Development Priority: Initially targeting server-side applications.
Efficient Compiler Design: Including features like dead-code elimination and partial evaluation, similar to the approach of Prepack[0] (by Facebook).
I believe this approach could bring significant benefits, especially with recent advancements like Uint8Array and worker threads.
Would this be of interest to the community? Looking forward to your insights and discussion.
[0] https://github.com/facebookarchive/prepack
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Do any engines or optimizers product TS-specific performance gains?
You can still do optimisations based purely on Javascript semantics. This is similar to the first example you give with dead function elimination, and many minifiers do some amount of this already, but you can take it to some extremes. One example of this is the (no longer maintained) Prepack project from Facebook. The core idea is to evaluate as much Javascript as possible at compile time, with the expectation that the result will probably be smaller (albeit less human readable) than the initial code.
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[AskJS] Are there JS minifiers that can compress the code by storing and reusing repeating property/method names and strings?
It's no longer maintained, but I think prepack is roughly what you're looking for.
- Can something like typescript or elm be AOT-compiled efficiently?
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React I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
i've had code where it intentionally relied on the wrong behavior (missing hook dependencies) and when I fixed it it caused an unintentional bug (hook fired too often or sometimes infinite rerendering). Yes it is more of a bug in the code rather than React hooks issue but it is also really hard to fix/rewrite. while i'd love to jump on the hype train projects like https://github.com/facebookarchive/prepack and how concurrent mode is still experimental after five+ years doesn't give me a lot of confidence.
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Memoirs of a lone JavaScript developer PART 2 : Svelte. An awful implementation of an old idea.
Some real examples in JavaScript can be seen on Prepack[2]. Consequently it is natural to wonder whether we can AOT compile components of client side frameworks, to achieve a reduction in the final bundle size, but also to increase application execution speed.
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React 18 is now in beta
Less or more it’s likely to happen, and could have been expected 2-3 years ago.
Especially with https://github.com/facebook/prepack. They want to eventually ship pre-compiled components rather than React.createElement() to end user
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Vercel Welcomes Rich Harris, Creator of Svelte
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/7324
I also think this is why facebook had been investing in `prepack` - https://github.com/facebook/prepack
rescript-compiler
- Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
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Tired of Typescript? Check out ReScript!
ReScript is a fully typed language with an easy to understand JS like syntax, blazing fast compiler, that compiles to JavaScript. You can easily drop it into an existing project, and there is even a way to generate TypeScript types if you want to add it to a TypeScript project!
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Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from React (2019)
If you’re a front-end developer, you should checkout ReScript[1], supposedly a JS-oriented successor of ReasonML and developed by the ReasonML team.
[1] https://rescript-lang.org/
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ReScript: Rust like features for JavaScript
ReScript is "Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript from the Future". What that means is that ReScript has a lightning fast compiler, an easy to learn JS like syntax, strong static types, with amazing features like pattern matching and variant types. Until 2020 it was called "BuckleScript" and is closely related to ReasonML.
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Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
As another commenter has already suggested, ReasonML has a lot of what you described here.
However, modern JS-oriented toolchain for ReasonML is called ReScript and you can learn more here: https://rescript-lang.org/
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How does one write React apps in a purely functional style without making the entire codebase a mess?
ReScript (before BuckleScript) https://rescript-lang.org/ is a functional language that can also use OOP. Ideal for Javascript and Typescript projects, React and servers. It integrates perfectly with Javascript and Typescript code https://rescript-lang.org/docs/react/latest/introduction
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Show HN: EdgeDB Cloud and 4.0 with FTS and Auth
Thank you!
We invited Gabriel because we think what he's building is pretty cool. It showcases so much about EdgeDB: its type system, data model, query language, composability, introspection, etc.
I'm not a ReScript user myself. What I know is that it's a functional programming language somewhat heavily inspired by OCaml. Their website goes into details [1]
[1] https://rescript-lang.org/
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Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
You might want to look into ReScript (https://rescript-lang.org/). It has strong static typing with type inference, and it is very fast.
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Building React Components Using Unions in TypeScript
This is because a “Tagged Union”, another word for TypeScript’s Discriminated Union, is a way to “tag which one is in use right now… we check the tag to see”. Just like when you’re shopping and check the tag of a piece of clothing to see what the price is, what size it is, or what material it’s made out of. Languages like ReScript compile many of their Unions (called Variants) to JavaScript Objects that have a tag property.
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Converting a JavaScript React app to a ReScript React app.
ReScript is "Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript from the Future". Let's take a look at how we can add it to an existing React project.
What are some alternatives?
react-18 - Workgroup for React 18 release.
svelte-wasm
SvelteKit - web development, streamlined
Elm - Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.
next-runtime - The Next.js Runtime allows Next.js to run on Netlify with zero configuration
TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
denoflare - Develop, test, and deploy Cloudflare Workers with Deno.
Fable: F# |> BABEL - F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust and Dart Compiler
jsx - The JSX specification is a XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript
solid-realworld - A Solid Implementation of the Realworld Example App
reason - Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems