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by noelwelsh 1037 days ago
I'm excited to see a modern GCed language that is targetting WASM. Closest comparison is probably Grain (https://grain-lang.org/).
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frou_dh 1037 days ago
Apparently the Grain compiler is written in ReasonML rather than plain OCaml. Isn't it a bit comedic how readily these niche things are stacked up?
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noelwelsh 1037 days ago
OCaml syntax is quite annoying ... everything is backwards and it even uses double semicolons! :-)
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giraffe_lady 1037 days ago
Why? A language's implementation language doesn't affect me much. And isn't reason just a syntax layer on ocaml? The tooling can convert back and forth and the runtime semantics are the same. I can read reason code fine if I need to, but I don't.
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tempodox 1037 days ago
Grain does look interesting, thanks for the link!
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