[jordwalke]

Hi I'm Jordan and I work on Reason.

pesy is just a utility I made to help people create new native Reason projects (like fnm) quickly and easily. It's fun.

fnm is a native Reason app. We haven't advertised much of Reason's (OCaml's) native capabilities because we wanted to make sure we've built out a lot of the tooling that makes native development easy - for example https://esy.sh. Now that a lot of this native tooling is becoming polished, I hope you'll probably start seeing more projects like fnm.

[a-saleh]

Awesome!

I looked at Reason several months ago and my impression was, that if you want to do frontend stuff with bucklescript, you are one git-pull and npm install from a working scaffold, but if you want Reason with ocaml for native stuff, you would mostly be scaffolding yourself.

I am really glad I was mistaken :)

[jordwalke]

Several months ago that was probably correct. Recently, we've released new tools like esy that make it... easy, especially if you come from a JS background or are familiar with JS tooling. There's still a lot to solve, and native is just inherently harder than targeting JS, but a lot of progress has been made recently, and there's more to come.