Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by clayallsopp » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:11 PM UTC

Reason: A new interface to OCaml
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Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by e_d_g_a_r » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:23 PM UTC

I for one welcome the syntax. I run the OCaml meetup in Silicon Valley and syntax is definitely an issue for newcomers. This makes it easier for other programmers to instantly just jump into OCaml/ML rather than ask about what is `in` or what is `let foo = function`, etc etc.

EDIT: Hosting a Meetup this friday at 6pm in San Francisco about Reason and how to instantly start using it, http://www.meetup.com/sv-ocaml/events/231198788/

Re: Reason: A new interface to OCaml

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Post by avsm » Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:38 PM UTC

There's a screencast fresh off the presses on the info page at https://ocaml.io/w/Blog:News/A_new_Reason_for_OCaml

I'm finally going to switch away from my ancient nvi setup and use Atom instead! MirageOS recently moved all our libraries over to using the new PPX extension point mechanism in OCaml instead of the Camlp4 extensible grammar. This means that MirageOS libraries should be compatible with Reason out of the box -- so it'll be possible to build unikernels from a slick editor interface quite soon hopefully!