[Drup]

If you want to use the OCaml ecosystem, use js_of_ocaml. It has much better compatibility and there is no perf difference.

In particular, js_of_ocaml works with both core_kernel and async_kernel.

[yminsky]

Indeed, js_of_ocaml is kind of shocking in its fidelity. It can compile even highly complex libraries that do lots of runtime tricks. Async_kernel and Incremental_kernel both compiled and worked without any issues whatsoever.

We've even built some support for making incrementally rendered web-apps in OCaml, using Async and Incremental. Here's a link:

https://github.com/janestreet/incr_dom

It sounds like Bucklescript is doing something quite different, which is to aim for pretty JavaScript output, while compromising and maintaining semantic consistency with OCaml. I don't fully understand the use-case, but for us, js-of-ocaml is clearly the thing we want.