Rescript - Programming language

Rescript is a programming language created in 2020.

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ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript. It comes with a lightning fast compiler toolchain that scales to any codebase size.

Tags: programming language
There are at least 1,604 Rescript repos on GitHub
Rescript compiles to JavaScript
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 52 users using Rescript in 54 repos on GitHub
rescript-lang.org was registered in 2020
10 PLDB concepts link to Rescript: Bucklescript, Catala, cloc, fay, Git, NCAR Command Language, Nit, Semantic Patch Language, UCL, zl

Example from the web:

module Button = {
  @react.component
  let make = (~count: int) => {
    let times = switch count {
    | 1 => "once"
    | 2 => "twice"
    | n => Belt.Int.toString(n) ++ " times"
    }
    let msg = "Click me " ++ times

    <button> {msg->React.string} </button>
  }
}

Example from hello-world:

Js.log("Hello World")

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		Js.log
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X