alt Hacker NewsSimilar attempts include Scalajs.
The general challenge becomes integrating the fractional front-end code written in your backend-language that compiles to JS with the rest of the JS ecosystem.
JaneStreet have a love of writing their own stuff from scratch so it doesn't apply to them but it might to you.
Hence most people end up with frontend-as-backend rather than backend-as-frontend.
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Yup, and Clojure/ClojureScript!
Couldn't WASM solve that problem once and for all? Is there some limitation that WASM has that JS doesn't?
Disclaimer: I am very inexperienced at front-end development.
Such attempts are quite common. Some I remember:
https://ocsigen.org/ in Ocaml too
https://websharper.com/ for fsharp and csharp. Really good when I used in in fsharp
Maybe https://melange.re/v7.0.1/ too? (Not sure)
KotlinJs and ClojureJs too. You always end up having to write wrappers or dealing with problems that would just work if you just used normal js/ts.