MoonBit: First Look at New Language Through Building WASM Back End

Looks like they claim to be "open source" while the license is most definitely not open source.

https://www.moonbitlang.com/blog/compiler-opensource

> Why are we open-sourcing the Wasm backend?

> Modifications to the compiler are allowed for non-commercial purposes.

Beautiful language - feels like Rust with sparkle of OCaml with TypeScript ease of use.

It's by Hongbo Zhang of Bloomberg's BuckleScript fame (used by Reason/ReScript) – he knows what he's doing together with the team it seems.

Thank you for opening first core libraries and recently compiler itself.

I'm voting with two hands for this initiative to create open and sustainable ecosystem around language.

Nice seeing a hands on use case like this!

Glad to see MoonBit has wasm components / component-model support! Being able to use MoonBit with other langs greatly heightens the chance of folks being able to use it, imo. https://www.moonbitlang.com/blog/component-model

Don't see it linked to moonbit site, but https://github.com/moonbit-community has a few moonbit repos to look at.

Nice, but why create yet another language, that doesn't introduce no real gains over existing ones ? It's not even a research effort ...

All modern languages will compile to WASM as well, that is not a new feature.

I'm failing to see the selling point here -- but I only looked at the first pages of the documentation, and some of the tutorial.

And lacking anything really new, I'd rather see efforts to improve existing languages :)