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by yawaramin 3230 days ago
UWP supports JavaScript? Cool, in that case a bunch of transpilers should work (once bindings are written) ... people can just use their preferred languages: OCaml/BuckleScript, F#/Fable, TypeScript, PureScript, et al.

I've actually written and run JScript scripts on Windows Script Host with BuckleScript, it's really nifty. You write strongly-typed code and get a JS artifact that can run on your target platform. For the curious, an example: https://github.com/yawaramin/wsh-bs-test