Why Bucklescript?

[ShalokShalom]

@OvermindDL1

Basically if you want to write in a language that catches most of your programming issues, is dang-fast, and is easy to read and write, that is what OCaml is built for.

@OvermindDL1

OCaml has a great FFI system that would work fantastically to integrate with existing Elixir code and all.

@OvermindDL1

Bucklescript is just a PPX for the OCaml compiler that plugs itself into the last hook in the PPX system so it takes the optimized AST and outputs to Javascript, an Elixir output is just as possible the same way.

@OvermindDL1

It is a very powerful compiler, almost trivially easy to extend.

So whats about a PPX that translates OCaml to Elixir?

This makes it possible to write code in one simple language that compiles into the ErlangVM, native OCaml and Bucklescript JS.

Plus, this idea combines Elixir and Erlang with the strong type checking of OCaml.

OCaml, Reason, Elixir, Erlang and Javascript in one language.