Imba – A new programming language for the web
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HN comment orderThis isn't a competitor to react; its a competitor to ES6/typescript/coffeescript. React is a template library, not a language. JSX is a way to write templates, but that's not react, and its not what react does. It's just a shortcut to writing XML. You could say this is a competitor to JSX, perhaps; but anything more is hyperbole. People aren't using react and angular because they have a nice syntax, that's just nice, they use them because you can build…
I've been following Imba for the past several months since the initial announcement on HN. I like the clean syntax, tags, and high performance, so I hope you guys attract interest despite all the library/framework fatigue we're experiencing in frontend JS land. It's rather refreshing to be able to write code and view all together, like <div.marker>.css(appropriate_styling) It would be great if you had some walked-through example apps on webpages (like the old site used to have). That kind of…
A 2016 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10901054 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091454
I wish Imba took off, it looks excellent and with full NPM support there wouldn't be an issue with the ecosystem.
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