[ANN] ReScript 10 - First Alpha Release

ryyppy · July 5, 2022, 8:50am

Hello everyone!

We are happy to announce that rescript@10.0.0-alpha.1 is now available on npm and ready for our first testing phase.

Installation

npm install rescript@next

We also published a corresponding @rescript/std library (for those who need it):

npm install @rescript/std@next

Important:

No playground version available yet. Will come later at the full release.
Editor extension should work as expected, new version will land as soon as the latest bugs are fixed

Changes

Full changelog can be found here:

github.com

rescript-lang/rescript-compiler/blob/master/Changes.md#1000-alpha1

`*` means potential break changes

# master

# 10.0.0-alpha.1

**Compiler**

- Add support for `@new @variadic` (see https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler/pull/5364)
- New records with `@optional` fields [#5423](https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler/pull/5423) [#5452](https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler/issues/5452)
- Classify bigint correctly [#5351](https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler/pull/5351)

- `*` `@bs.send.pipe` is now removed. Earlier it was deprecated.
- `*` Missing labels in function application is now an error (https://forum.rescript-lang.org/t/ann-more-strict-checks-in-missed-labels/2117).

**Syntax**

- Doc comments `/** ... */` are now supported. Inernally, they are attributes, so are only valid at positions where `@foo` is allowed, or a syntax error is given. Similarly for module-level `/*** comments */` that can go where `@@attributes` go.

- Fix printing for inline nullary functor types [#477](https://github.com/rescript-lang/syntax/pull/477)

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Call for Testing

This is a new major release, so we want to make sure that we are not introducing any unintentional breaking changes.

If possible, try out v10 in your existing projects, and if there are any issues, make sure to open tickets in the compiler, syntax or rescript-vscode issue trackers.

If there’s a problem with a particular ReScript library, let the maintainers know as well so we can work on a seamless migration path!

First Community Release

The v10 release was a very important step to a community managed development process.

We want to thank all participants finding / fixing bugs, exploring new functionality, taking care of CI and infrastructure, and even taking care of the actual npm release.

Github contributors:
An-Tu
Sehun0819
a-c-sreedhar-reddy
ah-yu
amiralies
aspeddro
cannorin
cometkim
glennsl
jchavarri
namenu

Special thanks to @Hongbo for building important core infrastructure / research, @cristianoc / @zth for taking care of the engineering / guidance of our community contributors, @ostera for setting up M1 automation, @cknitt / @fham for maintaining the new CI build pipelines and doing the npm release, @moondaddi for working on the new JSX draft (still WIP), @nkrkv / @augustine / @Minnozz / @jihchi for helping me transferring the latest docs to Belt / Js.

Most importantly, thanks everyone for creating a good foundation and take ownership of the platform. We are now able to build, develop, release all parts of the system, which allows us to gradually simplify the onboarding process for new contributors.

Enjoy!

Mng12345 · July 5, 2022, 9:26am

Wow! I will try it right now!

Hongbo · July 5, 2022, 10:36am

Congrats on the first community alpha release!

It is great to see a vibrant community and more people get involved.

Today happens to be my birthday, a happy coincidence : )

hoichi · July 5, 2022, 11:35am

Happy Birthday, @Hongbo!

MoOx · July 5, 2022, 1:18pm

It’s really nice to see a new release with lots of various contributors. Thank you all !

fakenickels · July 5, 2022, 6:48pm

Fantastic guys! What an amazing effort. Also congrats @Hongbo !!!

DZakh · July 5, 2022, 9:14pm

Looks fantastic! Thank you for release

I’ve update my packages and personal projects and came across few things that affected me:

Compiler started adding empty strings around values in template literals (Example)
A forced new line after switch case with code block looks a little bit off to me, but I can understand the reasoning behind it (Example)
@spyder rescript-nodejs stopped compiling because of the Not a valid global name on the lines. Am I right that in the v10 it should be interoped as type settingsObject = {@optional someField: int}?
Received a new FFI warning while using optional chaining inside %raw. Interesting
Undocumented breaking change of the Js.String2.match_. From (Js.String2.t, Js.Re.t) => option<array<Js.String2.t>> to (Js.String2.t, Js.Re.t) => option<array<option<Js.String2.t>>>. And it looks like it was the correct type before.

spyder · July 5, 2022, 9:51pm

It’s the = "" which causes that. I have prepared for this in webapi but forgot to check the nodejs bindings.

While yes the new record style will be fantastic for interop I do not plan to require v10 when it launches. Switching to that style will be a major breaking change (even if it’s a good one) for users of my libraries.

spyder · July 5, 2022, 9:55pm

No, it wasn’t correct before. There’s a scenario that requires the contents of the array to be optional.

github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler

Fix Js.String.match_ return type

rescript-lang:master ← renatoalencar:fix/js_string-match_

opened 01:53PM - 13 Apr 21 UTC

renatoalencar

+6 -3

Javscript String.prototype.match function can return `undefined` for optional ca…pture groups that are not found, which breaks the type annotations since this is not added as a `Js.nullable`, it's not possible to deal with those undefined values since it can't be passed to `Js.Nullable.isNullable`. Fixes #5066. I used the following code to test this. ```ocaml let m = Js.String.match_ [%re "/hello (world)?/"] "hello word";; let n = match m with | Some(n) -> Js.Array.filter (fun a -> not (Js.Nullable.isNullable a)) n | None -> [||];; Js.log n;; ```

yawaramin · July 6, 2022, 1:09am

Isn’t it actually the missing @obj decorator? On an object constructor function like this, what would the name in double-quotes be anyway? It doesn’t bind to any actual JavaScript function.

spyder · July 6, 2022, 1:24am

Yes that’s the bug, which I’ve already released a patch to fix, but the error is caused by the empty string external

yawaramin · July 6, 2022, 2:40am

This patch? Added missing @obj to http2 settings object API. This API was broken,… · TheSpyder/rescript-nodejs@7321ede · GitHub

DZakh · July 6, 2022, 7:56am

There could be issues with rescript-relay . See #5493.

There’s really an issue with rescript-relay

cristianoc · July 6, 2022, 8:14am

Yes it’s in the release notes.
Would you contribute the smallest repro in an issue. That will help speed up resolution.

DZakh · July 6, 2022, 8:37am

There’s an example project in the rescript-relay repo. I’ve cloned it, installed rescript@next and got the error.

Mng12345 · July 6, 2022, 10:38am

Build failed on windows10

Mng12345 · July 6, 2022, 10:47am

It turns out that because of using comment caused this error.

After removing it and build again, it failed with another error:

zth · July 6, 2022, 11:19am

This is now fixed in rescript-relay@1.0.0-beta.24.

For PPX authors experiencing the same issue (should be anyone using ppxlib), what I did to solve the issue is here: https://github.com/zth/rescript-relay/pull/372

moondaddi · July 6, 2022, 1:30pm

Thank you for the fix!

moondaddi · July 6, 2022, 1:32pm

I’m so pleased to have the V10 alpha release. It has been a while to see the release with awesome new features. Thank core team for your efforts! Cheers!