ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving

Re:ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving by zem on Saturday November 10, 2018 @04:38PM (#18423653)

reason is fully compatible with ocaml. nothing has been bifurcated. it is not even the first alternative syntax - the "revised syntax" had been around forever. https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-camlp4/manual007.html

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Re:ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving by jarcane on Saturday November 10, 2018 @05:29PM (#18423872)

Reason compiles to Ocaml, yes. Does Facebook actually want you to just use Ocaml? Sure doesn't seem that way to me. Facebook is pushing their own tool, and their own libraries to go with it. Interoperability between Reason, Bucklescript, Ocaml native, OPAM libs, and the various build tools in between is confusing and ill-defined. The path of least resistance just seems to be "stay in our garden... there's no walls technically, but good luck hopping back and forth".

And all because some people are allegedly pathologically incapable of understanding a language without bolting curly braces on it.

It's the most absurd overcorrection for a pedantic complaint I've ever seen in tech.

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Re:ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving by StreamBright on Saturday November 10, 2018 @06:47PM (#18424157)

>>> Does Facebook actually want you to just use Ocaml?

Facebook already uses OCaml.

https://github.com/facebook/infer

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Re:ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving by Klathmon on Saturday November 10, 2018 @08:17PM (#18424486)

They use it for a few different projects:

https://github.com/facebook?language=ocaml

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Re:ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving by emmelaich on Saturday November 10, 2018 @11:16PM (#18425005)

> Reason compiles to Ocaml ..

My understanding is that it can be translated both ways with no difference of semantics.

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