Ezno
Languages and libraries
type checker
SHOW HN2023
113points
24comments
#568of 3,109 in 2023
Top 19%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
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1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Cool project and congrats on the launch
From 2 comments
Very cool! Congrats on the launch, even if it is very early. Unsolicited feedback: I read the name an Enzo (n-zo) until I read the readme and realized it was Ezno (es-no). Since…
ZephyrBlu on HNVery cool! I'm curious, is this intended for dev tooling? For example, I could see this (or something similar) being useful as the engine for a typescript language server that…
pcthrowaway on HN
Encouragement to finish the large project
From 1 comment
The issue has always been that people start these projects, see just how big/hard checking the whole of TypeScript is and don't finish it. It would be awesome if you finished it :]
inglor on HN
Objections
Too early to run most programs
From 1 comment
This is extremely early per the disclaimer at the top, like too early to even run most toy programs. In general I'm kind of skeptical of the approach these rewrite in rust/go…
esprehn on HN
Name is misread as Enzo
From 3 comments
Very cool! Congrats on the launch, even if it is very early. Unsolicited feedback: I read the name an Enzo (n-zo) until I read the readme and realized it was Ezno (es-no). Since…
ZephyrBlu on HNI saw it as Enzo as well
meowtimemania on HNI don't know what it is about this name but I just can't not read it as "enzo".
bin_bash on HN
Skepticism about full rewrites in Rust/Go
From 1 comment
This is extremely early per the disclaimer at the top, like too early to even run most toy programs. In general I'm kind of skeptical of the approach these rewrite in rust/go…
esprehn on HN
Title calling it a rewrite is misleading
From 1 comment
I don’t see how this project can be considered a rewrite of anything. Yes, it compiles JavaScript and uses TypeScripts typing syntax, but it has different features and semantics…
jaredklewis on HN
Requests
Support for tsconfig
From 1 comment
Does this have tsconfig support, or is it only checking on a per-file basis so far?
xnorswap on HN
Rename to something less confusable
From 1 comment
Very cool! Congrats on the launch, even if it is very early. Unsolicited feedback: I read the name an Enzo (n-zo) until I read the readme and realized it was Ezno (es-no). Since…
ZephyrBlu on HN
Questions
Is it meant for dev tooling such as a language server?
From 1 comment
Very cool! I'm curious, is this intended for dev tooling? For example, I could see this (or something similar) being useful as the engine for a typescript language server that…
pcthrowaway on HN
Does it check per file only?
From 1 comment
Does this have tsconfig support, or is it only checking on a per-file basis so far?
xnorswap on HN
Alternatives named
stc
From 2 comments
The analogy (by swc's author) would be https://github.com/dudykr/stc
inglor on HNYeah, stc seems to be just using the TypeScript test suite as a proxy for completeness. Pretty far along, but unclear when it will actually be usable.…
presentation on HN
swc
From 1 comment
Very cool! I'm curious, is this intended for dev tooling? For example, I could see this (or something similar) being useful as the engine for a typescript language server that…
pcthrowaway on HN
tsc
From 1 comment
Which means being always behind. I rather have the Typescript team improve the experience, on their bootstrapped compiler.
pjmlp on HN