ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by ccapndave » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 5:06 PM UTC

ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)
rescript-lang.org

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by ccapndave » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 6:26 PM UTC

I used ReasonML and Bucklescript for a self-contained part of a massive Typescript project to try it out and it was a joy. Here's hoping more people find out about it and it gets some more widespread adoption.

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by gdsdfe » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

I'm confused, so reasonml is now rescript?

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by iammiles » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC

gdsdfe wrote: post #3

I'm confused, so reasonml is now rescript?

I think it's just when you use ReasonML in conjunction with Bucklescript to target JS. If you're using ReasonML to compile natively then things are the same.

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

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Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by ccapndave » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

gdsdfe wrote: post #3

I'm confused, so reasonml is now rescript?

ReScript is specifically ReasonML with Bucklescript, which is for transpiling down to Javascript. They also made a few minor syntax changes that make it look a bit more like Typescript.

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by toastal » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

Dropping the semicolons, all the brackets, and other JS-y syntax of ReasonML in favor of something more OCaml-y makes this a lot easier to read. I'm super confused at a capital U being the sigil for uncurried functions; it just is not a convention I'd expect from a modern language.

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by orra » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:24 PM UTC

gdsdfe wrote: post #3

I'm confused, so reasonml is now rescript?

I'm even more confused.

It's like all of BuckleScript and parts of ReasonML is now ReScript. Except BuckleScript has a new C-like syntax unlike the ML syntax that made BuckleScript BuckleScript as opposed to ReasonML.

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by yawaramin » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

toastal wrote: post #7

Dropping the semicolons, all the brackets, and other JS-y syntax of ReasonML in favor of something more OCaml-y makes this a lot easier to read. I'm super confused at a capital U being the sigil for uncurried functions; it just is not a convention I'd expect from a modern language.

It's not a sigil, it's just a naming convention. For example, in the OCaml world there's a convention for functions that throw exceptions to have a '_exn' suffix. In Haskell there's a convention for monadic function to have an 'M' suffix.

Re: ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

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Post by ccapndave » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:43 PM UTC

orra wrote: post #8

gdsdfe wrote: post #3

I'm confused, so reasonml is now rescript?

I'm even more confused. It's like all of BuckleScript and parts of ReasonML is now ReScript. Except BuckleScript has a new C-like syntax unlike the ML syntax that made BuckleScript BuckleScript as opposed to ReasonML.

Basically Bucklescript have forked their own (very similar) syntax from ReasonML and branded the whole syntax + Bucklescript + compiler package as ReScript. I suppose the goal is to eliminate the confusion of having so many moving parts and unify them all under a single ReScript brand.