rescript-compiler VS Elm

Probably every developer that comes to ReScript stumbles upon a dilemma about which module from the standard library they should use to work with JavaScript API.

I wasn't familiar with this before. Thanks for being it to my attention! https://rescript-lang.org/

I find ReScript (https://rescript-lang.org/) fundamentally better than TypeScript. It has easy FFI and a sound typesystem. With Rescript you wont have any runtime errors, like you can with typescript. But compared to vanilla javascript typescript is a big improvement.

Overall, both TypeScript and ReScript have several advantages over JavaScript, and which one you choose will depend on your specific needs and preferences. TypeScript is a good choice if you want to take advantage of static typing and strong integration with popular front-end frameworks, while ReScript is a good choice if you want a simple and easy-to-learn language with a focus on readability and performance. Regardless of which language you choose, all three are powerful tools that can help you build high-quality web applications.

I’ve recently been ripped from doing Functional Programming in Elm on the front-end and ReScript on the back-end in a Serverless Environment into Object Oriented Programming using Angular & TypeScript on the front-end and TypeScript on the back-end in a server full environment. It’s been quite a shock to go back to what I moved on from 7 years ago. Thankfully TypeScript has started to incorporate some Functional Programming constructs so I can keep my sanity (or at least try).

This year, I chose Roc. It’s a strictly typed functional language. As someone who loves Elm, a strictly typed functional language for front-end web development, I was lacking a language for everything else (server, cli, etc). ReScript has been my stand in for various reasons. I was excited to try Roc lang for last year’s Advent of Code, but my youngest daughter convinced me to use Lua for Roblox. I figured after a whole year, things would be much more stable now.

Because you use rescript

The correct answer is actually rescript

ReScript compilation speeds are really fast out of the box. But, sometimes editing certain files can take longer to compile than you'd expect it to.

oh Bummer - in this case you might have luck with the binaries from here: https://github.com/elm/compiler/releases (hopefully your OS is among the assets there)

Ok, I’ll bite. I’m ok with this code in JavaScript, not C#. Look no further to Programming Twitter for proof that there is no definition of “good code” as no one can agree if this is good or not. I’ll take this opportunity to explore the edge cases because they’re fun in Elm.

Elm is an amazing choice.

For deployment, I like Cloudflare Pages/Workers for small projects and https://fly.io for large projects.

For frontend, I think you'll really enjoy Elm if you like R and Python. Personally, I use vanilla JS (no framework) for small projects and Elm for large projects.

For backend, there are plenty of excellent REST API frameworks for Rust, Go, Deno, Elixir, etc. I can give specific language recommendations if you're interested.

[1] https://elm-lang.org

[2] http://vanilla-js.com

How about a different approach. Instead doing more of the same, branch out in to a different language. Elm, for example. [0]

Elm specifically will teach you lots on the static types end of things. And it will only take a weekend or so of tinkering to show improvements in your TS life.

0 - https://elm-lang.org/

I think this is something that iced is doing really well (which is inspired by elm which damn near did it perfectly, imo).

For part one, I noticed the input being almost valid Elm code, so I wrote a few lines of Fish to generate an Elm program. Then ran it with elm repl. Elm allows out of order variable declarations so it did all the work for me.

I’ve recently been ripped from doing Functional Programming in Elm on the front-end and ReScript on the back-end in a Serverless Environment into Object Oriented Programming using Angular & TypeScript on the front-end and TypeScript on the back-end in a server full environment. It’s been quite a shock to go back to what I moved on from 7 years ago. Thankfully TypeScript has started to incorporate some Functional Programming constructs so I can keep my sanity (or at least try).

This year, I chose Roc. It’s a strictly typed functional language. As someone who loves Elm, a strictly typed functional language for front-end web development, I was lacking a language for everything else (server, cli, etc). ReScript has been my stand in for various reasons. I was excited to try Roc lang for last year’s Advent of Code, but my youngest daughter convinced me to use Lua for Roblox. I figured after a whole year, things would be much more stable now.