Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Ocsigen Js_of_ocaml 2.0

[Jacques-Pascal Deplaix <jp.deplaix@gmail.com>]

Oups, the working command line for ocamlbuild is rather this one:
  $ ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -plugin-tags "package(eliom.ocamlbuild)" 
yourprogram.js

On 04/11/2014 03:36 PM, Jacques-Pascal Deplaix wrote:
> Note also that this release includes an ocamlbuild plugin which can be 
> used with ocaml >= 4.01.
>
> You can now build your javascript program with the following "steps":
>  $ ls
> yourprogram.ml myocamlbuild.ml
>  $ cat myocamlbuild.ml
> Ocamlbuild_plugin.dispatch Ocamlbuild_js_of_ocaml.dispatcher;;
>  $ ocamlbuild -plugin-tags js_of_ocaml.ocamlbuild yourprogram.js
>
> Then yourprogram.js can be found in the _build directory
>
> The full Changelog is available here:
> https://github.com/ocsigen/js_of_ocaml/blob/089b051f4f819caa51036627846c35a194b9430c/CHANGES 
>
>
> On 04/11/2014 03:12 PM, Jérôme Vouillon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are happy to announce release 2.0 of Js_of_ocaml, the compiler from
>> OCaml bytecode to JavaScript.
>>
>> A lot of efforts has been put in reducing the size of the generated
>> JavaScript code. Much shorter variable names are used; unnecessary
>> whitespaces and semicolons are omitted; multiple occurrences of a same
>> constant are shared... The runtime is minified as well. You can expect
>> a space reduction of 15% to 20%.
>>
>> Recursive modules are now supported. Tail calls between mutually
>> recursive functions are optimized (using trampolines). In particular,
>> lexers produced by ocamllex are now properly optimized.
>>
>> The runtime now simulates a small filesystem (in memory), which makes
>> it possible to use the OCaml I/O functions. The standard outputs are
>> by default redirected to the JavaScript console, which is convenient
>> for debugging.
>>
>> A larger part of the OCaml libraries are supported: bigarrays, the
>> time-related functions of the Unix library.
>>
>> A number of incompatible changes have been made. In particular:
>> - JavaScript numbers are simply given type 'float' rather than type
>>    'float Js.t';
>> - the compiler generates "strict mode" JavaScript; therefore,
>>    'Js.Unsafe.variable "this"' does not refer to the JavaScript
>>    global object ("window" in browsers) anymore; you can use
>>    'Js.Unsafe.global' instead;
>> - runtime primitives are now wrapped together with the generated code
>>    in a huge function so as not to pollute the global scope.
>>
>> LINKS
>>
>> Project home page  http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/
>> Download http://ocsigen.org/download/js_of_ocaml-2.00.tar.gz
>> Get source code    git clone https://github.com/ocsigen/js_of_ocaml.git
>> Documentation      http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/manual/
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- Jérôme Vouillon and Hugo Heuzard
>