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by afrisch 2881 days ago
Many files are taken from the OCaml compiler and then adapted, but changes seems a bit deeper than just a different syntax. It would indeed seem fair for the authors to at least make it clear in the toplevel README that the front-end (parsetree representation and type-checking) is indeed / started as a fork of the OCaml code base.

Considering ongoing efforts to create a WebAssembly backend for OCaml (and thus Reason), I wonder what would be the selling point of Grain.
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ubertaco 2881 days ago
Even syntactically, this looks a lot like if you took ReasonML, disallowed type annotations, did away with its ecosystem, and compiled to WebAssembly.

Aside from the wasm compilation, I don't see why this exists.

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senorsmile 2881 days ago
That was my question only having recently started looking into ReasonML seriously. Sounds like I'll just stick to Reason!
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tom_mellior 2881 days ago
> Many files are taken from the OCaml compiler and then adapted [...]

I went back and checked, and Grain not only takes OCaml's code without clear attribution but redistributes that code under GPLv3 where the original code is under LGPLv2.1. That's bad.

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