[sidkshatriya]

> It's forked language that already has some substantial differences and will keep diverging.

This is really about opinion and individual assessment. It depends on how much emphasis one assigns to surface syntax vs deep language features.

Yes, the surface syntax of Rescript has been cleaned up a bit. There are some new language features but the language is still "close" to OCaml/ReasonML as of end 2021 according to me. If you're able to understand OCaml/ReasonML today you won't have much problem reading Rescript.

But, yes, it is diverging and it could look very different in the coming years.