Happy to announce that we've just open sourced Reason: a new developer experience for the ML language: facebook.github.io/reason/
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Congrats, buddy. ❤️ Would love to hear more about what motivated you personally to attack this (vs. incrementally improving JS)!
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Great question. JS is super important and this approach just automates writing of that JS in a way that is more optimized
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with the added option to compile it to bare metal executables, no VM, link with clang. Js or Native? Why not both!
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And is compatible with/benefits from JS incrementally improving simultaneously. JS gets faster? Thanks for the boost VM's!
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I see it as providing strictly more options, some of which sound lofty (compile to ARM?) but are here and real right now.
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Also practically, a bunch of Faceookers already use the ocaml compiler and could provide insight/collaborate.
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at the very least it's a good chance to make the language we're already using for FB language tooling more approachable.
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Awesome. Looking forward to giving it a try!