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F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Erlang and Dart Compiler

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-01-21 · latest 2026-04-22

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    Fable 5, F# compiler released
    story by throwawaygod · 2026-04-22 · 1 comment
  2. …indentation instead of curly braces. And with Fable you can transpile it to Rust (or Python even): https://github.com/fable-compiler/fable
    comment by siwatanejo · 2026-04-05 · in Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
  3. …than the mess blazor is. It’s ironic that I found js interop less annoying than .net interop. [1] https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable
    comment by DimmieMan · 2025-08-09 · in Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)
  4. Stuff like this: https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/issues/1822 And this Flutter binding launched a year ago by one person and then never touched again: https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable.Flutter It just seems like an incredibly…
    comment by bmitc · 2023-08-17 · in Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
  5. …in this screenshot: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/849479/104726627-3... from this PR https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/issues/2339 Its author gives a talk about it here, though you may need to make a (free) account:…
    comment by dharmaturtle · 2021-11-04 · in Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming
  6. Also there are work to support PHP ( https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/pull/2447 ), Rust ( https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/pull/2523 ) and Lua ( https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/pull/2509 )
    comment by adelarsq · 2021-10-20 · in Fable is a compiler that brings F# into the JavaScript ecosystem
  7. What's even more exciting is there is work underway to allow Fable to target Python instead: https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/issues/2339 These things are bizarre when you think about the tech stack they lead to, but undeniably…
    comment by akdor1154 · 2021-10-19 · in Fable is a compiler that brings F# into the JavaScript ecosystem
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    F# Meets Python
    story by adelarsq · 2021-07-16 · 0 comments
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    Work in Progress: PHP support for F# (Fable) merged
    story by adelarsq · 2021-06-03 · 0 comments
  10. …that is. I'm not sure about any C#-focused efforts. 1: https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous 2: https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable (transpiles F# to JS) 3: https://github.com/elmish/elmish 4: https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe…
    comment by sasmithjr · 2019-10-31 · in When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
  11. I like Fable https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable
    comment by dustinmoris · 2018-01-17 · in Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem for a web backend?
  12. …to compile. Its generated code is pretty but its performance is not very good, see this issue ( https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/issues/646 ) "this can make a difference in speed of up to about six or seven times for tight loop code…
    comment by hongbo_zhang · 2017-04-16 · in Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (1998)
  13. If you want the BuckleScript equivalent for F#, that would be Fable. https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/blob/master/README.m... There's a newer branch called Fable Arch which I believe is focused on promoting the Elm Architecture for…
    comment by ZenoArrow · 2017-01-21 · in BuckleScript: write JavaScript faster, safer and smaller