Hi,
I would have love to be able to add a simple --reasonml switch to all the OCaml compiling tool family and get my .re / .rei compiled. This would have help people to come to Reason from OCaml books, tutorials and documentations.
My personal religion is : "do not install something out of apt install" (because it’s too time consuming), the command line switch I speak about would already have been packaged in all major GNU+Linux distributions by now if provided 2 years ago, allowing the language to reach a broader audience, and even regular people not interested in React (yet).
But it was already a struggle to install rtop on Debian : https://www.grimoire-command.es/2019/rtop_on_debian_stretch.html ; and I know I wont be able to go further without a nodeenv (or an equivalent) which is a step never shown on tutorials.
I think that everything that doesn’t deserve be to rewritten in Rust should be in Reason, and I believe that this language could fly far above the web app. area.
To finish, implementing this command switch would show some upstream contributed code, a brilliant example of “we’re really nice”.
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