OCaml – Compiling Mini-ML to JavaScript (opens in new tab)

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40 pointsfredyr10y ago4 comments

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Awesome! This should demonstrate to the masses how easy it is to make language transpilers in ML family languages. Can't get much simpler than that.

simplify10y ago

For representing `if` statements in JavaScript, what was the reasoning for using a function over a ternary?

fredyrOP10y ago

I changed from the ternary representation to the function, because I didn't think the generated code was very readable. In hindsight I'm not sure it's that much improvement. From a performance view it's probably worse off.

zeckalpha10y ago

Rule 1: Do not make assumptions about JavaScript performance.

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4 comments

zeckalpha10y ago

Awesome! This should demonstrate to the masses how easy it is to make language transpilers in ML family languages. Can't get much simpler than that.

simplify10y ago

For representing `if` statements in JavaScript, what was the reasoning for using a function over a ternary?

fredyrOP10y ago

zeckalpha10y ago

Rule 1: Do not make assumptions about JavaScript performance.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse