CoffeeScript for TypeScript

Re:CoffeeScript for TypeScript by giraffe_lady on Monday February 27, 2023 @05:51PM (#34963126)

please just use rescript it addresses every problem with js/ts and is simpler and you get a sound type system please.

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Re:CoffeeScript for TypeScript by 0x62c1b43e on Monday February 27, 2023 @05:58PM (#34963200)

The compilation speed of ReScript is also great

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Re:CoffeeScript for TypeScript by miffy900 on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:22PM (#34964074)

I took a look at rescript's facillities for migration from JS and at step 1 (https://rescript-lang.org/docs/manual/latest/converting-from...), it tells you:

> First, copy the entire file content over to a new file called src/Main.res by using our %%raw JS embedding trick: > %%raw(`const school = require('school'); etc. `)

I stopped reading there - I'm sorry but that is horrifying. Wrapping JS in in a big backtick string?! No. That's even worse that Dart-JS interop.

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Re:CoffeeScript for TypeScript by Throw999999 on Monday February 27, 2023 @08:56PM (#34964712)

That is not how you normally do interop in Rescript.

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Re:CoffeeScript for TypeScript by giraffe_lady on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:34AM (#34969704)

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