Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?

1. prepack

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   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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3. purescript

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4. reason

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5. Nim

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   I don't think it's a rust-inspired language, but since it has strong typing and compiles to javascript, did you give a look at nim [0] ?

   For what it takes, I find the language very expressive without the verbosity in rust that reminds me java. And it is also very flexible.

   [0] : https://nim-lang.org/

6. rescript

   5 107 7,052 9.8 ReScript

   ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable 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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