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This article title and conclusions are misleading. It shows how to write a simple game in OCaml and then proceeds to conclude that ReasonML is better. I would e
by vzaliva 7y ago
This article title and conclusions are misleading. It shows how to write a simple game in OCaml and then proceeds to conclude that ReasonML is better. I would expect the author to have the same game implemented in ReasonML for comparison to show us why. Otherwise, it is not very convincing.
- gameswithgo 7y agohaving done some OCaml and F#, where F#’s syntax is more like reason, i think it is pretty clear that OCaml is a fascinating language but what does impose some weird syntactic work that both reason and f# relieve you of. probably to someone sufficiently used to ocaml it doesn’t matter but it can hurt adoption
- sdegutis 7y agoI always thought ReasonML was just a more JavaScript-ish syntax on top of OCaml, not necessarily better but just different. In what ways is it an actual improvement?
- nv-vn 7y agoI don't see how you can say F#'s syntax is more like Reason. OCaml and F# have nearly identical syntax for the core language, with the few differences being: 1) places features diverged 2) modules 3) F#'s "light" syntax mode None of these really seem like Reason at all. Do you have any specific places where they're similar?
- dang 7y agoWe've changed the title to that of the article, as the site guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Submitted title was "Is ReasonML good by itself or the underlying OCaml the source of awesomeness?"