[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...