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- Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from React (2019)
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Melange for React devs book, alpha release
Hey HN, at Ahrefs we have been working on an online book that hopefully helps React developers get up and running with Melange, an OCaml to JavaScript compiler. You can read more about Melange here: https://melange.re/.
There are still a few chapters that we'd like to add before considering it "complete", but it might be already helpful for some folks out there, that's why we decided to publish it early.
The book uses Reason syntax to implement React components using ReasonReact components. You can read more about both in:
https://reasonml.github.io/
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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.
- Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
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Earning the privilege to work on unoriginal problems
This tracks with how I've seen "normal" languages converge on similar, flawed imitations of better type systems through tools and repurposed syntax. Thank you for confirming.
Do you have any recommendations or warnings regarding general languages which reach in the opposite direction? Reason[1] and F#[2] are both examples: they attach pre-existing ecosystems and compile-for-$PLATFORM tools to OCaml-like typing.
OCaml itself is also intriguing for personal projects. However, I'm worried the "GPL" in its standard library's LGPL license might scare people despite both the linking exception and Jane Street's MIT alternative.
1. https://reasonml.github.io/
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Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript
ReasonML purely as a syntax layer on top of OCaml is still being updated and released[1]. Incidentally, I'm one of the maintainers of that project too :-)
With this Melange release, we're hoping to somewhat revive ReasonML and channel some folks back to the community from the perspective of a vertically integrated platform that has seen major investment in the past few years.
[1]: https://github.com/reasonml/reason
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VN Compiler. Why using Fable is too difficult. (Pt. 1)
Why not use https://reasonml.github.io/ instead? Or just use Typescript?
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My Thoughts on OCaml
Quieted down, but I depend on projects with worst graphs:
https://github.com/reasonml/reason/graphs/contributors
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why
There is also reasonml for Web development.
- Por que Elm é uma linguagem tão deliciosa?
haxe
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Wax compiler – a tiny language designed to transpile to other languages
This remineds me of Haxe[1]. I like Wax better because of the Common-Lisp-like syntax.
[1]: https://haxe.org
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Marimo: Interactive Fluffy Ball
I thought this was a three.js demo but it's actually built with a language called haxe [1]. I've never heard of this language before and looks really cool. Makes me want to play with it!
[1] https://haxe.org/
- Haxe 4.3.4
- Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?
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Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
The Haxe programming language (https://haxe.org/). It's insane how unpopular this is compared to its value.
"Haxe can build cross-platform applications targeting JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, JVM, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash, and allows access to each platform's native capabilities. Haxe has its own VMs (HashLink and NekoVM) but can also run in interpreted mode."
It's mostly popular in game dev circles, and is used by: Nortgard, Dead Cells, Papers Please, ... .
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One Game, by One Man, on Six Platforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For those interested in cross platform game development, don't forget https://haxe.org/! The usefulness / popularity ratio is very high on this one :).
- Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and animations
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Is this idea worth pursuing? (a common grammar interface for various interpreted languages written in C)
Sounds like haxe: https://haxe.org/
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TC39 Proposal: Types as Comments
I really enjoyed programming in AS3, and https://haxe.org/ was really helpful at the time to make development easier.
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TIL: "private_constant"
Been tinkering in the Haxe programming language recently. I definitely suggest checking it out, but one thing I liked was private constants. I know other languages have this, but its where I've encountered it most recently.
What are some alternatives?
purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
rescript-compiler - The compiler for ReScript.
eso-light-attack-weave - This is a macro for the game Elder Scrolls Online
melange - A mixture of tooling combined to produce JavaScript from OCaml & Reason
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]
js_of_ocaml - Compiler from OCaml to Javascript.
fut - Fusion programming language. Transpiling to C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift, TypeScript and OpenCL C.
ocamlformat - Auto-formatter for OCaml code
Fable: F# |> BABEL - F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust and Dart Compiler
refterm - Reference monospace terminal renderer
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.