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ReasonML Quick Start Guide
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ReasonML Quick Start Guide

by Raphael Rafatpanah, Bruno Joseph D'mello
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
180 pages
4h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is ReasonML?

Reason is a layer of syntax & tooling on top of OCaml, a language Facebook uses actively. Jordan [Walke] started the concept of Reason before React, in fact. We’re taking it and using it as an actual frontend language (among other uses) because we think that after three and half years, the React experiment has succeeded and people are now ready for Reason...
– Cheng Lou, January, 2017  (https://www.reactiflux.com/transcripts/cheng-lou/)

Let's expand on this quote. ReasonML is not a new language; it's a new syntax for the OCaml language that is meant to be familiar to JavaScript developers. Reason, as we'll call it from now on, has the exact same AST as OCaml, so Reason and OCaml only differ by syntax. The semantics are the ...

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