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by sidkshatriya
1465 days ago
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> whole confusion around reason/rescript may have harmed development of ocaml for a while OCaml is an anchor language for many important projects (e.g. Coq) and companies (INRIA, Janestreet etc). The momentum behind OCaml has grown and I don't think the rescript/reason separation affected it _that_ much. But I am curious to know if rescript/reason issue harmed rescript. While rescript gained a lot of technical freedom from the breakaway from OCaml it lost some people along the way. Was the breakaway worth it in retrospect? |
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Personal anecdote: yes, it has.
I was very interested in Reason when it appeared, and it seemed to have immense momentum: exploring arguably better (or more familiar) syntax, tool integrations etc. I know that people ran regular OCaml workflows/projects with it.
And then the whole split happened ... why? "We don't want to be constrained by OCaml" while keeping all of OCaml's syntactic idiosyncrasies among other things doesn't sound like a proper, well, reason.
This is where I stopped being interested (and as I imagine, many people stopped, too). Because a slit in a niche miniature language (which it was at the time) means only one thing: not enough resources to continue with either one.
It doesn't help that the whole split was confusing to everyone. Good description here: https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-resc...