RFC: Mint as a metalanguage for React Native

[lukepighetti]

I've been thinking about this a lot. Mint has some features that really make it stand out in the world of front end programming. We use Flutter a lot at our mobile app agency and we'd love to use Mint as a metalanguage for that ecosystem, but that seems very unlikely. However, it seems like Mint could be a metalanguage for React Native, including React Native Web. style could use the React Native style properties and Mint could target web & mobile.

Any thoughts?

[s0kil]

Related To: #111

[gdotdesign]

I think the architecture of the project would allow compiling down to other targets:

• the AST and type checker can be reused as is
• Html probably needs to be renamed to something else
• if the target is not JavaScript then the core library needs to be migrated as well
• how styling works needs to be rethought
• much tooling is needed

It is certainly possible, someone just need to put the work in 🙂