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by throwamon 1599 days ago
I've been following their progress from a distance and for a while I really believed it would explode in popularity, but the whole renaming things a thousand times over and splitting the project in confusing ways pretty much killed them. And now the introduction page won't even mention OCaml. Why do they seem to make it a point to hide the fact that the language is an OCaml derivative? Do they perhaps believe this is going to make the language more popular? Because I think it will have the opposite effect (it will be easier to dismiss it as "weirder underground TypeScript").

I really wish them success (I'd LOVE to live in a parallel universe where this is the default web language), but it seems like whoever is responsible for attracting developer mindshare is completely clueless.
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jagtesh 1599 days ago
Disclaimer: wrote this on phone and writing from memory

From how I understand this, ReasonML was/is the true OCaml derivative in JS world.

Whereas Rescript, which was called BuckleScript I think, took the nice pattern matching bits along with the type system from OCaml and married it into JS syntax.

That said, they’ve further tweaked the syntax from BuckleScript days presumably and removed support for JS classes.

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