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by chenglou 3573 days ago
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 "Reason".
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swuecho 3573 days 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.

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jonahx 3573 days ago
> Currently it's a syntax on top of OCaml.

Does this just mean it compiles to OCaml?

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chenglou 3573 days 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-&-Tric...

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jonahx 3572 days ago
Interesting. Thanks for explaining that.
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