I spent hours following the (multiple sets of disparate) instructions to set RLS up, and I was never able to get it working so I gave up on ReasonML. I like the concept, but it needs to be as easy to get up and running as Rust/Rust's "RLS".
Re:TypeScript vs. ReasonML
by johnisgood on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:13AM
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What is the issue with merlin? Are you referring to https://github.com/ocaml/merlin? I have been using it (with OCaml) without any problems.
Merlin requires opam, which is yet another tool beginners need to fight with. Reason support for Merlin was relatively recently merged, so it might work ok right now- but I couldn't get it to work with Reason the last time I tried. I agree it works fine with Ocaml.
Re:TypeScript vs. ReasonML
by jameskraus on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @10:49AM
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Unfortunately I could never get RLS to work for me. I opened an issue on it, but it seems like the small group of people with the same issue haven't had the time/drive/knowledge to fix it. The maintainer doesn't want to fix it himself, but I don't blame him, he doesn't have the same error :/
Maybe it will be ironed out someday...
I will admit this is a little bit more confusing than would be ideal, because there is also an older ecosystem called "Merlin". If you are a reasonml beginner, avoid plugins that use Merlin.