This is a great idea!

I would suggest that we follow the library
support for Temptory to build this libatscc, making extensive
use of templates (instead of higher order functions).

On Monday, April 1, 2019 at 6:46:44 AM UTC-4, Artyom Shalkhakov wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've started work on improving atscc2js yesterday and found that we have 
> three similar projects:
>
>    1. https://github.com/steinwaywhw/ATS-Python3
>    2. https://github.com/bakpakin/ats-lua
>    3. https://github.com/sazl/ats-go
>    4. and the in-progress atscc2js
>    
> Every target programming language comes with its own "prelude" (e.g. 
> libatscc2js for JS), but such preludes essentially implement the interfaces 
> defined in libatscc.
>
> Now I'm thinking that we need to package up the interface and keep it as 
> uniform as possible across the different targets, so that programmers may 
> hopefully share more code between platforms with little issues (or no issue 
> at all).
>
> With the above in mind, I propose to:
>
>    1. package up libatscc somehow, e.g. put it on NPM (I'm working on 
>    this, it will require only minimal changes to the existing code)
>    2. come up with some process to maintain this 'specification' (maybe 
>    create a github organization and put this library into a repository; let 
>    people use issues and PRs to propose changes)
>    
> Is anybody interested? If not I'll just go with the first point, and the 
> specification will live on in the ATS-Postiats repository (for now).
>

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