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Re:OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (2006) by modernerd on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:50AM (#24034578)
That's helpful, thanks.

The recent syntax switch[1] does feel like it will further fragment the community.

And TypeScript has some pretty attractive functional projects:

https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts

https://github.com/Matechs-Garage/matechs-effect

[1]: https://reasonml.org/blog/bucklescript-8-1-new-syntax

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Re:OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (2006) by brmgb on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:55AM (#24034857)
There isn't much to fragment to be honest.

From what I have seen, there seems to be little buy-in for Reason in the Ocaml community which is not particularly surprising considering it's supposed to solve a pain point no one in the community actually has (Ocaml syntax is fine - it's obviously more Algol-like than C-like but clearly the existing community doesn't care).

Reason seems to be mostly pushed by Facebook towards Javascript developers. That might work. Then again, esy is nice.

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