I write code, front-end and back-end, and like deploying it on AWS. Software Developer for 20 years, and still love it. Amateur Powerlifter & Parkourist.
When I run the compiler in watch mode. TypeScript takes seconds, ReScript takes milliseconds. No webpack, hot hot module reloading, just writing writing code so I can immediately go node theFile.js or npm test:unit.
No, I haven't tried Vite, thanks for the link. My issue, really, is... me. 10 years ago, I learned of TypeScript. As a new Flash/Flex refugee, I was looking for something that had strong types and would compile to JavaScript since I still wanted to do web development, just not go back in time 5 years using JavaScript compared to ActionScript 3. Back then, compilers/transpilers were fringe, JavaScript the language didn't have as many features + browser support as today, and most of the community said "You don't need classes and types". While I didn't agree, it was still hard to implement this stuff for client work if you weren't a sole contractor architecting your own projects for clients. Once Angular RC1 came out, TypeScript was more mature and solidified to write not just UI's but back-end code, CLI's, and libraries. Angular RC1 is also when I stopped being an OOP fan, and started learning more Functional Programming. 10 years later today, TypeScript still isn't very friendly to a Functional Programmer. The language is heavily focused on OOP developers, or heavily Object based code bases that have a lot of internal state and side effects. Despite the herculean efforts of fp-ts, and the massive growth in the job market for TypeScript acceptance... I don't really care, I don't like it.
ReScript gives me the guarentee's I want and the speed I want, with zero configuration or having to muck around with compiler settings, bike shed with a team what settings we should/should not use, etc. It's friendly to an FP programmer and has many FP features built into the language and standard libraries.
10 years later today, TypeScript still isn't very friendly to a Functional Programmer. The language is heavily focused on OOP developers, or heavily Object based code bases that have a lot of internal state and side effects. Despite the herculean efforts of fp-ts, and the massive growth in the job market for TypeScript acceptance...
That is a very compelling reason to go for ReScript over TypeScript indeed. TS can too easily slide out into something you don't want, and everyone on a team being guided into doing the right thing is good.
PS: check out ts-belt if you have to use typescript, it's inspired by and built with ReScript.
I write code, front-end and back-end, and like deploying it on AWS. Software Developer for 20 years, and still love it. Amateur Powerlifter & Parkourist.
When I run the compiler in watch mode. TypeScript takes seconds, ReScript takes milliseconds. No webpack, hot hot module reloading, just writing writing code so I can immediately go
node theFile.jsornpm test:unit.No, I haven't tried Vite, thanks for the link. My issue, really, is... me. 10 years ago, I learned of TypeScript. As a new Flash/Flex refugee, I was looking for something that had strong types and would compile to JavaScript since I still wanted to do web development, just not go back in time 5 years using JavaScript compared to ActionScript 3. Back then, compilers/transpilers were fringe, JavaScript the language didn't have as many features + browser support as today, and most of the community said "You don't need classes and types". While I didn't agree, it was still hard to implement this stuff for client work if you weren't a sole contractor architecting your own projects for clients. Once Angular RC1 came out, TypeScript was more mature and solidified to write not just UI's but back-end code, CLI's, and libraries. Angular RC1 is also when I stopped being an OOP fan, and started learning more Functional Programming. 10 years later today, TypeScript still isn't very friendly to a Functional Programmer. The language is heavily focused on OOP developers, or heavily Object based code bases that have a lot of internal state and side effects. Despite the herculean efforts of fp-ts, and the massive growth in the job market for TypeScript acceptance... I don't really care, I don't like it.
ReScript gives me the guarentee's I want and the speed I want, with zero configuration or having to muck around with compiler settings, bike shed with a team what settings we should/should not use, etc. It's friendly to an FP programmer and has many FP features built into the language and standard libraries.
That is a very compelling reason to go for ReScript over TypeScript indeed. TS can too easily slide out into something you don't want, and everyone on a team being guided into doing the right thing is good.
PS: check out ts-belt if you have to use typescript, it's inspired by and built with ReScript.
Nice, thanks, I'll check it out.