[Weebs]

I have nothing to say other than thank you! I might not use OCaml often myself, but I appreciate the effort to improve the ML ecosystem in any way :) I was a bit disappointed with the ReScript fork abandoning the compatibility with OCaml so this project was welcome news

[square_usual]

Me too. I think the ReScript people were well within their rights to fork off - they realized that what they wanted was a better JS and compatibility with OCaml held them back, but it also split an already small community and made it hard for me to convince even myself to pick OCaml for hobby projects. I'm glad melange is picking up and becoming viable, and once the situation with multicore and web frameworks built on multicore stabilizes I'd love to make a full-stack OCaml web app.

[orra]

I'm also pleased to see this, as somebody who likes functional programming and ML dialects. I don't need braces just because C has them.

BuckleScript, when it was called that, was incredibly compelling for me. This was in part thanks to being blazing fast, unlike TypeScript. So I am pleased to see a spiritual successor.

[phforms]

I have only worked with ReScript for about a year before switching to ClojureScript (which was a better fit for my project), but I really enjoyed the experience and genuinely wish it would become a more popular alternative to TypeScript for devs who are coming from JS and are looking to dive into FP and static typing. The developer team did a great job with highly optimized and readable JS compilation, great integration and interop with React, JSX support, raw JS and even TypeScript (see GenType) and now it also supports async/await. The website is also really well made and provides good documentation and a nice forum to get help when needed.

However, Melange seems to head in a good direction too and I guess it would be amazing for people who are already familiar with OCaml and want to integrate with libraries and codebases there. So I think both projects are valuable in their own right for different use-cases.

[Weebs]

Good to hear they're providing a good dev experience. My only gripe at the time was more of a worry on whether the split was going to be worthwhile because the ML ecosystem is already so small, but I'm glad to hear the project has been effective for you.