Re: [Caml-list] ReasonML concrete syntax

[Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Robert Muller <robert.muller2@gmail.com>
wrote:

> [...]
> Exactly! Reason may be great, but OCaml is effectively being expropriated
> by a huge, powerful organization.
>

Also, sorry, but this is pure hyperbole.

The Reason team has a select few people who have to, like any other tools
team, make the case to every potential internal client about why to use
their tool. They don't automatically get full Facebook backing just because
they exist. In fact, they have to compete against the much more well-known
Flow project for JavaScript type annotations. Their biggest win so far as
is they're migrating the Facebook Messenger webapp to Reason and are about
halfway there.

In fact they are tossing around the idea of building tools that
automatically display your OCaml code to you in your favourite syntax, so
you don't have to care about what others are using.

So it's far from a foregone conclusion that Reason syntax will take over
the OCaml ecosystem.

Regards,

Yawar

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