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Think Elixir for Erlang. Currently it's a syntax on top of OCaml. But we'd like to polish the OCaml ecosystem tooling too; we're calling the umbrella project "

• swuecho 10y ago
  That will be great. Ocaml is great language, but not that user friendly. Elixir is pretty mature nowadays. Reason still have a long way to go. Hope that will happen.
• jonahx 10y ago
  > Currently it's a syntax on top of OCaml. Does this just mean it compiles to OCaml?
  • chenglou 10y ago
    There's a crucial distinction! OCaml's compilation command takes in a `-pp` flag (preprocessor), which accepts a command that takes in a file and outputs an OCaml AST tree. We're basically using that. In that sense, the official OCaml syntax is really just that: another syntax like Reason, but official, and goes back two decades. Because of the clean mapping from one syntax to another, you can toggle between the two fairly easily: https://github.com/facebook/reason/wiki/Newcomer-Tips-&-Tricks#ocaml---reason-conversion-tricks https://github.com/facebook/reason/wiki/Newcomer-Tips-&-Tric...
    • jonahx 10y ago
      Interesting. Thanks for explaining that.