May 21, 2018

Announcing BuckleScript 3.1

Hongbo Zhang
Compiler & Build System

Important: This is an archived blog post, kept for historical reasons. Please note that this information might be outdated.

Newest Changes

List of changes here! Highlights:

A picture's worth a thousand words:

Before:

debugger before

After:

debugger after

Please see Better Data Structures Printing (Debug Mode) for usage.

Even Better bs.deriving abstract

We've further polished our new way of binding to JS objects. The record fields of a bs.deriving abstract can now accept functions.

Pipe First Improvement

Pipe First now supports piping into variant tags!

RE
let result = name |. preprocess |. Some

We turn this into:

RE
let result = Some(preprocess(name))

Js.Boolean Is Gone

Since BuckleScript 3.0, OCaml bool now compile to JS boolean. It was deprecated (all the boolean conversion functions became no-ops, with warnings during build), and now completely removed. No more need for the converter functions!

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