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Imba – A new programming language for the web

#1

Post by judofyr » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 12:45 PM UTC

#2

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC

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#3

Post by nailer » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC

I don't think of react as a language, but rather a virtual DOM + JSX.

This looks like a nice modern syntax which is both an ES6 focused minimal JS (removing unnecessary tokens) with HTML building included.

#4

Post by endymi0n » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

So this is basically coffeescript. Where's the react part?

#5

Post by ilovefood » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

awesome

#6

Post by viach » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

"if Ruby and React had an indentation based lovechild, what would it look like?"

Let me guess!... CoffeeScript?

#7

Post by nailer » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

endymi0n wrote: post #4

So this is basically coffeescript. Where's the react part?

Scroll down to 'Tags'.

#8

Post by SomeoneWeird » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:22 PM UTC

I lot of these things are basically irrelevant if you use ES6/7.

#9

Post by Goranek » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:22 PM UTC

really love the design, and how it shows the whole language on the frontpage.

#10

Post by _hadrian » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 1:23 PM UTC

viach wrote: post #6

"if Ruby and React had an indentation based lovechild, what would it look like?" Let me guess!... CoffeeScript?

yeah, just add the jsx to CoffeeScript :D