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I find OCaml's syntax simple and clear. I don't get the reason for Reason, but hope it leads to more OCaml adoption.

• emmelaich 10y ago
  I get the reason* for Reason even though it may ostensibly be a superficial one. There was a post by someone on HN saying they started using Reason and ended up using straight Ocaml. * My earliest memories of attempting to use Ocaml was pasting something directly from a beginner's tutorial into ocamli and getting a baffling error message. I think it had to do with use of double semicolons vs single semicolons. Yet that wasn't mentioned in the entire tutorial.
• cies 10y ago
  Reason is more then a "slightly improved syntax to help attract programmers from mainstream languages". It also improves error messages and tooling. It has something akin to JSX built into the lang.
• e12e 10y ago
  OCaml might be simple and clear, but starting from Standard ML - there's a number of differences that feel like warts and needless complications for no discernable gain for the programmer. I do think Reason fix up a few of these ancient and partially crumbled stone walls making the ocaml landscape easier to criss-cross for a new generation of programmers.
  • cies 10y ago
    > there's a number of differences that feel like warts and needless complications for no discernable gain Such as?
    • e12e 10y ago
      It's been a while - but pretty much what Reason address - although I'd prefer filling in SML for js-ish syntax.