CREDITS.md

History

This project was originally created by Hongbo Zhang in 2015. It was named BuckleScript and rebranded into ReScript in 2020.

The major contributions from contributors include

• super_errors from Cheng and Cristiano
• react_jsx_ppx from Ricky

Cristiano also contributed to several important patches in the upstream native compiler, in particular, the pattern match compilation.

More details are available here.

Acknowledgments

OCaml

Thanks to the OCaml team, obviously, without such a beautiful yet practical language, this project would not exist.

ReScript builds on these parts of OCaml:

• jscomp/core/lam_pass_exits.ml
• jscomp/core/lam_pass_lets_dce.ml

These modules were adapted from ocaml/bytecomp/simplif.ml for JavaScript specific optimization purposes.

• jscomp/main/rescript_compiler_main.ml

jscomp/main/rescript_compiler_main.ml is adapted from ocaml/driver/main.ml. It is the main entry point of the underlying compiler.

• jscomp/stdlib-406

jscomp/stdlib-* is copied from ocaml/stdlib. It is compiled to JavaScript and included with ReScript.

ReScript imported one file from jsoo

• jscomp/core/js_dump.ml (pretty printer)

This file was imported but changed significantly in iterations later.

• jscomp/test

jscomp/test is based on ocaml/testsuite.

ReScript unit test builds on parts of OUnit

• jscomp/ounit is adapted from ounit, the unit test utilities are only used for dev purpose, they are not required for distribution

Ninja

Thanks to ninja-build, ReScript also comes with a blazing fast build tool on top of it, ninja is a truly well engineered scalable build tool.

Bloomberg and Facebook

Thanks to Bloomberg and Facebook. This project began at Bloomberg and was published in 2016; without the support of Bloomberg, it would not have happened. This project's funded by Facebook since July 2017.