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Show HN: Script: JavaScript That Runs Like Rust
- kermatt 8mo agoInteresting project, problematic name? Searching for answers in the proper context was difficult pre-AI for some language languages (ex. "Go" vs "Golang" [1]), I wonder if search term collision with the word "script" is going to be better or worse with summarized searches. [1] The Go language developers at sometime asserted the name was not "Golang", but that produced much better search results.
- jucasoliveira 8mo agoThat's a valuable feedback, and the answer is I don't really know , it just make sense to name like this when I created it. But it's a nascent project, that's plenty of time to think if the name is a good fit or not. I'm always open to change if makes total sense
- eiiot 8mo agoWas this post written with AI? The syntax and use of emojis certainly looks like something Claude would generate.
- jeswin 8mo ago> Was this post written with AI? Why should we care if it's not difficult to read? What is your complaint?
- jeswin 8mo agoVery interesting. I made a similar project called tsonic [1] which compiles TS to C# and then uses NativeAOT to compile it down to native code. We'd have faced similar issues, and I'm curious how you solved it. From your examples: function add(a: number, b: number): number { return a + b; } The challenge I faced here with JS/TS was that they have a single "number" type which can be carry ints, longs, floats etc. In most application code, you don't want a and b to be floats - you want them to be integers; such as in a loop counter. There are a whole bunch of types in native code that have no equivalent in TS. It took me several months to get to a usable state, working on issues one by one. This is a great project. Keep going, good luck. [1]: https://tsonic.org https://tsonic.org