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Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by giancarlostoro » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:05 PM UTC

jodah wrote: post #7

hellodevnull wrote: post #4

Site doesn't load in Firefox. Works in Chrome.

Incredible, but you are correct. Pegs 1 CPU in FF and while it loads, it barely scrolls.

Having the same issue, it loads very weirdly.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by jordwalke » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:06 PM UTC

jodah wrote: post #7

hellodevnull wrote: post #4

Site doesn't load in Firefox. Works in Chrome.

Incredible, but you are correct. Pegs 1 CPU in FF and while it loads, it barely scrolls.

Pretty sure it was the gif. I've disabled it. Could you try again?

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:06 PM UTC

emerongi wrote: post #18

TY wrote: post #10

Ok, it might be the end of the day for me and I'm denser than usual, but I can't understand what is this? Ocaml to JS transpiler? Checked this out, but the reason still eludes me: https://ocaml.io/w/Blog:News/A_new_Reason_for_OCaml (pun intended)

I feel like FB needed it and also released it to the public, but outside of FB, there's little Reason to use it.

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Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by bcherny » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:07 PM UTC

GemG wrote: post #19

TY wrote: post #10

Ok, it might be the end of the day for me and I'm denser than usual, but I can't understand what is this? Ocaml to JS transpiler? Checked this out, but the reason still eludes me: https://ocaml.io/w/Blog:News/A_new_Reason_for_OCaml (pun intended)

Thought it was mostly summed up in the first paragraph... "Reason is a new approachable interface to the OCaml language, with the long-term goal of improving the developer experience by providing a functional syntax and toolchain for writing, building and sharing code quickly and easily."

I think the question was, what's the relationship between Reason and JavaScript?

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by jordwalke » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:07 PM UTC

kruhft wrote: post #6

hellodevnull wrote: post #4

Site doesn't load in Firefox. Works in Chrome.

I was curious why it doesn't scroll. Barely works but gives a CPU spike and just jumps around between pages...

Chrome and Safari both worked for me. Common reports about Firefox, so I disabled the gif. Can you let me know if it works now?

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by aerovistae » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:07 PM UTC

BUILD SYSTEMS RAPID

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by ciniglio » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:08 PM UTC

TY wrote: post #10

Ok, it might be the end of the day for me and I'm denser than usual, but I can't understand what is this? Ocaml to JS transpiler? Checked this out, but the reason still eludes me: https://ocaml.io/w/Blog:News/A_new_Reason_for_OCaml (pun intended)

I think it's a new frontend for the OCaml compiler. Allowing reuse of the backend / similar semantics, but with different syntax.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by jordwalke » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:08 PM UTC

Paul_S wrote: post #5

Website fries the CPU (FF).

Sounds like FF can't handle gifs, but Chrome/Safari do a good job. I've disabled the gif on the main page just to be friendly to FF while I figure out a better approach. Thanks for the report.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by jordwalke » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:09 PM UTC

grhmc wrote: post #16

I'm seeing "BUILD SYSTEMS RAPIDL" over here on Linux.

Thanks there's some strange font rendering issues. Will fix! edit: now fixed.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by robin_reala » Tue, May 17, 2016, 9:09 PM UTC

jordwalke wrote: post #22

jodah wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Incredible, but you are correct. Pegs 1 CPU in FF and while it loads, it barely scrolls.

Pretty sure it was the gif. I've disabled it. Could you try again?

Could you possibly submit the gif in a bug to Mozilla? They’d want to fix that…