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Enhancement : more alignement with Javascript vocabulary
Happy new year, and happy v11 !
I have read with great interest the last v11 which is very promising ! The uncurry by default and many other features shows a great energy to stay close to the JS ecosystem (and get rid of the legacy buckle script branding)
If we analyze ReScript as product rather than a language, talking to JS developers that want safety rather than FP programmers that do not want to use Javascript is a brilliant idea.
In the mean time I've noticed that some names that just look strange if you do not have a fp/ocaml background. (What is Exn ??? would say the profan developer).
I would like to propose to ReScript to go one step further in a future release with a radical alignment between ReScript and ECMAScript by using the same vocabulary / coding standard.
Here are some examples :
-
XXX.make
=> JS usesXXX.create
(ex: Object.create, React.createElement, etc) - Exn => JS uses Error or throw (ex: Result.getOrThrow instead of Result.getExn), in addition JS uses very few abbreviations
-
String.get
=>String.at
etc.
Of course there might be other occurrences and some libraries could also have the same problems. (I could help providing a full API audit and renaming suggestions based on existing standards if needed)
IMHO, ReScript v11 represents this instant when the technology offers a great basis for an ecosystem to grow but this ecosystem is not too big so breaking changes are still acceptable
What do you think ?