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Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by justincormack »

bcherny wrote: post #24
GemG wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It is a new syntax for OCaml but OCaml can compile to JS really well so Reason can too.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by Touche »

bcherny wrote: post #24
GemG wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

OCaml can be compiled to JavaScript. Therefore, so can Reason.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by ciniglio »

bcherny wrote: post #24
GemG wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Looks like their plan is to reuse the ocaml compiler backends that output javascript; but it doesn't sound like they're doing anything explicit to promote Reason -> Javascript compilation.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by gpm »

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?

Just tried, it's still not working well.

edit: Fixed now.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by Cyph0n »

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)

It plugs into the existing OCaml compiler toolchain [1], which is quite smart. So it's basically an interface to OCaml that shares the stability and features of the OCaml compiler and runtime.

[1]: http://facebook.github.io/reason/#how-reason-works

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by munificent »

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)

Think of Reason like "CoffeeScript for OCaml"—a nicer surface syntax for the same underlying language. With CoffeeScript, it's a nicer JS. With Reason, it's a nicer OCaml.

OCaml can also be compiled to JavaScript, like pretty much every language can these days.

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by dmm »

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?

It's still hanging firefox for me. You can install firefox and try it yourself: https://getfirefox.com
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