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I think the problem here is that OCaml/ReasonML is a relatively large language - the flip side to the nice syntactic sugar, and there's a paucity of material to

by cbzbc 8y ago

I think the problem here is that OCaml/ReasonML is a relatively large language - the flip side to the nice syntactic sugar, and there's a paucity of material to get people into ReasonML if they haven't touched FP before (which for FP to take off is the target audience).

jasim 8y ago
It is definitely not ideal, but they are happening. A few helpful resources: Nik Graf has a free ReasonML course on Egghead.io, which has a lot of positive reviews from the community. https://egghead.io/courses/get-started-with-reason https://egghead.io/courses/get-started-with-reason Dr. Axel Rauschmayer has written "Exploring ReasonML and functional programming" which covers the language comprehensively. http://reasonmlhub.com/exploring-reasonml/ http://reasonmlhub.com/exploring-reasonml/ Web Development with ReasonML by J. David Eisenberg, published by Pragmatic Bookshelfis in the works. I read a few sample chapters and they're excellent for beginners: https://pragprog.com/book/reasonml/web-development-with-reasonml https://pragprog.com/book/reasonml/web-development-with-reas... Jane Street wrote a set of 24 runnable exercises that teaches OCaml, and we ported it to ReasonML. It has been used for workshops and individual study and will get you upto speed on the paradigm quickly. https://github.com/protoship/learn-reasonml-workshop https://github.com/protoship/learn-reasonml-workshop You also have textbooks on OCaml, a lot of them openly accessible, including the venerable Real World OCaml. They are all listed in the awesome-ocaml repository: https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml#books https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml#books There is vramana's awesome-reasonml repository that covers similar ground for Reason itself: https://github.com/vramana/awesome-reasonml https://github.com/vramana/awesome-reasonml
- kmf 8y ago
  Going to plug a quick thing here :) I run a project called Byteconf - we have a free ReasonML conference coming up this Friday, streamed on Twitch: https://www.byteconf.com/reason-2018 https://www.byteconf.com/reason-2018
weberc2 8y ago
> there's a paucity of material to get people into ReasonML Believe it or not, it's even worse if you want to target native code and not JS.

by cbzbc 8y ago

jasim 8y ago

It is definitely not ideal, but they are happening. A few helpful resources: Nik Graf has a free ReasonML course on Egghead.io, which has a lot of positive reviews from the community. https://egghead.io/courses/get-started-with-reason https://egghead.io/courses/get-started-with-reason Dr. Axel Rauschmayer has written "Exploring ReasonML and functional programming" which covers the language comprehensively. http://reasonmlhub.com/exploring-reasonml/ http://reasonmlhub.com/exploring-reasonml/ Web Development with ReasonML by J. David Eisenberg, published by Pragmatic Bookshelfis in the works. I read a few sample chapters and they're excellent for beginners: https://pragprog.com/book/reasonml/web-development-with-reasonml https://pragprog.com/book/reasonml/web-development-with-reas... Jane Street wrote a set of 24 runnable exercises that teaches OCaml, and we ported it to ReasonML. It has been used for workshops and individual study and will get you upto speed on the paradigm quickly. https://github.com/protoship/learn-reasonml-workshop https://github.com/protoship/learn-reasonml-workshop You also have textbooks on OCaml, a lot of them openly accessible, including the venerable Real World OCaml. They are all listed in the awesome-ocaml repository: https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml#books https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml#books There is vramana's awesome-reasonml repository that covers similar ground for Reason itself: https://github.com/vramana/awesome-reasonml https://github.com/vramana/awesome-reasonml

kmf 8y ago
Going to plug a quick thing here :) I run a project called Byteconf - we have a free ReasonML conference coming up this Friday, streamed on Twitch: https://www.byteconf.com/reason-2018 https://www.byteconf.com/reason-2018

weberc2 8y ago

> there's a paucity of material to get people into ReasonML Believe it or not, it's even worse if you want to target native code and not JS.