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Re:Deploying a ReasonML React app with Docker by cwyers on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:32PM (#16317790)
ReasonML has two compilers -- a compiler that goes to JavaScript, and a compiler that goes to native code (the OCaml compiler, since Reason and OCaml share an AST/etc.) So if you want to use ReasonML with a web server, you have two options:

1) A native web server, or 2) NodeJS.

Because Reason can compile to JS, you can use with Node just like any other compiles-to-JS language. The claim here (which I have no opinion on either way) is that using a particular native OCaml web server with ReasonML is faster than compiling ReasonML to JS and using it with Node.

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Re:Deploying a ReasonML React app with Docker by cies on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:43PM (#16318912)
> that using a particular native OCaml web server with ReasonML is faster than compiling ReasonML to JS and using it with Node.

Faster considering the resources used (mem/cpu). Yups. Exactly that was my claim. Cohttp cannot beat Node, while a natively compiled OCaml server should be able to beat node.

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