[satvikpendem]

The split between the Reason and BuckleScript/ReScript dealt, I believe, a fatal blow to both communities which were now split. It's a shame, I could have seen Reason in the same space as Rust, an ML-like language (well, literally an ML via OCaml) except without a borrow checker. It would have been great to use it in place of TypeScript on both the server and client, but now ReScript is incompatible with Reason, by design.

[k__]

I never understood the reason for the split.

Was it because native had different requirements than JS?

Why couldn't they both play along and target WebAssembly?

[satvikpendem]

It seems like they simply wanted to add stuff that might not have been possible without changing ReasonML, and so they built their own framework and rebranded it to ReScript: https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-resc...