oCaml support for klipse

[dvberkel]

With this issue I would like to gauge the interest to support oCaml in klipse.

BuckleScript is an excellent oCaml to JavaScript compiler, that also runs in the browser.

If there is interest, I am willing and hopefully able to provide a pull request integrating oCaml in klipse

[viebel]

That's exciting. I'm very very interested by being able to evaluate oCaml in klipse. Then we would be able to write an interactive version of the article behind core.match.

[dvberkel]

Great!

I will take some time to familiarize myself with BuckleScript and then try to include it in klipse.

[viebel]

You can take a look at how it is done for ruby in this file https://github.com/viebel/klipse/blob/master/src/klipse/lang/ruby.cljs or python here https://github.com/viebel/klipse/blob/master/src/klipse/lang/python.cljs

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I will take some time to familiarize myself with BuckleScript and then try to include it in klipse.

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[dvberkel]

As detailed by @bobzhang in ocsigen/js_of_ocaml/#528, the BuckleScript playground compiles and evaluates oCaml as expanded upon in bloomberg/bucklescript#629. At the moment there is no public exposed API as can be seen bloomberg/bucklscript#125.

Building upon these thoughts, a prototype of what we want can be seen is at jsbin. At the moment it only compiles the oCaml code. The JavaScript is not evaluated.

I will keep working on it until I have a single full round trip.

[viebel]

@dvberkel The prototype in jsbin doesn't work for me because files hosted on github ares served as text file. You have to host the file in another place.

[dvberkel]

@viebel I can't seem to loose the failing demos ;-)

I will keep working on it and convert the prototype to something that I have more control over.

[viebel]

@dvberkel any progress/blockers? Do you need help?

[dvberkel]

I have made a (hopefully) working prototype.

The only problem that I have is doing to many things at once :-). I will probably work on integrating this with klipse tomorrow. If I get stuck, I will start asking questions.

[viebel]

Very nice! It should be straitforward to add ocaml into klipse. Look for instance at JSX integration into klipse and grep for klipse.lang.jsx

[viebel]

I've create a first draft wiki page for instructions about how to add a new language in klipse https://github.com/viebel/klipse/wiki/How-to-add-a-language-to-klipse