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by e12e 3354 days ago
OCaml might be simple and clear, but starting from Standard ML - there's a number of differences that feel like warts and needless complications for no discernable gain for the programmer.

I do think Reason fix up a few of these ancient and partially crumbled stone walls making the ocaml landscape easier to criss-cross for a new generation of programmers.

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> there's a number of differences that feel like warts and needless complications for no discernable gain

Such as?

It's been a while - but pretty much what Reason address - although I'd prefer filling in SML for js-ish syntax.