[thangngoc89]

The ReasonML ecosystem is quite confusing for newcomers. ReasonML could be compiled to a binary out of the box thanks to the OCaml toolchain. Pesy is a tool for making native development easier. Regardings Javascript compilation backend, you only hear about that because it's what the ReasonML team selling.

[a-saleh]

And I get that, I think I heard somebody from Reason community to say on some podcast once "We want to get the frontend stuff right first", or something along those lines :-)

[devmunchies]

That makes more sense to me now why doing server side reason compiles to a node.js app and not a more performant OCaml app. Server is not a priority yet.

[anuragsoni]

Server side reason can already compile to native binaries (thanks to the OCaml compiler). While maybe smaller than the npm ecosystem there are a lot of high quality packages available on the OCaml ecosystem [1] that allow for a very pleasant server side development experience. For example https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium is a really nice high level toolkit. There are database bindings to Postgres, Mysql and the like, and high level interfaces to them like https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti

[1] http://opam.ocaml.org/packages/