book
reason
Our great sponsors
book | reason | |
---|---|---|
18 | 44 | |
1,160 | 10,054 | |
0.7% | 0.3% | |
2.7 | 5.8 | |
2 months ago | 2 months ago | |
OCaml | OCaml | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
book
-
OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions
Some of your questions might be answered in this book (free online version): https://dev.realworldocaml.org/
- Compiler Development: Rust or OCaml?
-
Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
I don't think they're wrong
the Jane Street side are quite prolific with blog posts etc
as a newcomer to OCaml one of the first, and nicer-looking, intro resources you'll likely encounter is the Real World OCaml book https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ which unfortunately does everything using Base instead of the stdlib
Personally that didn't sit right to me and I prefer to use the stdlib by default (which seems fine and not in need of a wholesale replacement)
-
Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML
This is an oldie but a goodie.
OCaml has, unlike Standard ML, grown quite a lot since this page was made.
In particular, the section "Standard libraries", I'd recommend looking at:
https://dev.realworldocaml.org/
A couple of places where the comparison is outdated:
- OCaml using Base [1] allows for result-type oriented programming
- OCaml using Base uses less language magic and more module system
While there was and is truth to the distinction that SML is for scientists and OCaml is for engineers, this dichotomy is getting dated: OCaml is under active development, which means that scientists who want better tooling will choose OCaml. For example, 1ML [2] by Andreas Rossberg was built in OCaml.
[1]: https://opensource.janestreet.com/base/
-
Resource recommendations for a beginner.
Real World OCaml (version 2 is finally out) is also pretty good.
-
OCAML HELP!
Real World OCaml is also a good resource, geared more towards people who already have some programming experience and want a more industry/practical focused learning experience.
-
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
ocaml.org’s new website is packed with lots of great early intros.
most learners eventually gravitate towards Real World OCaml https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ for additional learning.
Unfortunately, the learning resources for different domains out there isn’t as highly curated or prolific as, say, rust. If you do web dev like me, it takes a bit more work to find the tools and put them together. But the language itself lends itself well to systems level programming.
Fortunately, the forum is a great help.
-
Help getting started with Ocaml
In general, better read the second edition which is updated to use current Core versions. A print version was published recently.
-
learning ocaml this semester.
I recommend https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ and https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html
-
Functional Reactive Programming
Elm is not dead. It just prefers a slow release schedule but is still actively worked on in the background.
That said, you might want to check out OCaml for general purpose programming. Super fast compiler, great performance, can target both native and JS.
It is easier to use than Haskell due to defaulting to eager evaluation (like most languages) strategy instead of laziness and being generally more pragmatic, offering more escape hatches into the imperative world if need be. Plus great upward trajectory with lot's of cool stuff like an effects system and multi-core support coming.
Real World Ocaml is a decent resource: https://dev.realworldocaml.org/
reason
- Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from React (2019)
-
Melange for React devs book, alpha release
Hey HN, at Ahrefs we have been working on an online book that hopefully helps React developers get up and running with Melange, an OCaml to JavaScript compiler. You can read more about Melange here: https://melange.re/.
There are still a few chapters that we'd like to add before considering it "complete", but it might be already helpful for some folks out there, that's why we decided to publish it early.
The book uses Reason syntax to implement React components using ReasonReact components. You can read more about both in:
https://reasonml.github.io/
-
ReScript: Rust like features for JavaScript
ReScript is "Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript from the Future". What that means is that ReScript has a lightning fast compiler, an easy to learn JS like syntax, strong static types, with amazing features like pattern matching and variant types. Until 2020 it was called "BuckleScript" and is closely related to ReasonML.
- Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
-
Earning the privilege to work on unoriginal problems
This tracks with how I've seen "normal" languages converge on similar, flawed imitations of better type systems through tools and repurposed syntax. Thank you for confirming.
Do you have any recommendations or warnings regarding general languages which reach in the opposite direction? Reason[1] and F#[2] are both examples: they attach pre-existing ecosystems and compile-for-$PLATFORM tools to OCaml-like typing.
OCaml itself is also intriguing for personal projects. However, I'm worried the "GPL" in its standard library's LGPL license might scare people despite both the linking exception and Jane Street's MIT alternative.
1. https://reasonml.github.io/
-
Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript
ReasonML purely as a syntax layer on top of OCaml is still being updated and released[1]. Incidentally, I'm one of the maintainers of that project too :-)
With this Melange release, we're hoping to somewhat revive ReasonML and channel some folks back to the community from the perspective of a vertically integrated platform that has seen major investment in the past few years.
[1]: https://github.com/reasonml/reason
-
VN Compiler. Why using Fable is too difficult. (Pt. 1)
Why not use https://reasonml.github.io/ instead? Or just use Typescript?
-
My Thoughts on OCaml
Quieted down, but I depend on projects with worst graphs:
https://github.com/reasonml/reason/graphs/contributors
-
why
There is also reasonml for Web development.
- Por que Elm é uma linguagem tão deliciosa?
What are some alternatives?
swift-async-algorithms - Async Algorithms for Swift
purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript
awesome-ocaml - A curated collection of awesome OCaml tools, frameworks, libraries and articles.
rescript-compiler - The compiler for ReScript.
learn-you-a-haskell - “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!” by Miran Lipovača
melange - A mixture of tooling combined to produce JavaScript from OCaml & Reason
ocaml-containers - A lightweight, modular standard library extension, string library, and interfaces to various libraries (unix, threads, etc.) BSD license.
js_of_ocaml - Compiler from OCaml to Javascript.
onelinerizer - Shamelessly convert any Python 2 script into a terrible single line of code
ocamlformat - Auto-formatter for OCaml code
reflex - Interactive programs without callbacks or side-effects. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) uses composable events and time-varying values to describe interactive systems as pure functions. Just like other pure functional code, functional reactive code is easier to get right on the first try, maintain, and reuse.
refterm - Reference monospace terminal renderer