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Please, you're driving me crazy. I have referred to you personally by name in two of my above comments. I know who you are! I also know about JSOO vs BS! I know! And it's super disorienting when every single prominent person from the Reason/BuckleScript ecosystem arrives in this thread just to reply directly to my comments with a canned message that has little to do with my original points.

Yes, OCaml is older! Yes, OCaml circa 2015 is a useful language! But also, yes, OCaml has gained multiple useful features since 2015! In part because its development is driver by many, many people. And no, BuckleScript doesn't have some of those features as of May 2020! And it's not an indictment of Reason, but it is also a true statement that Reason/BS are lagging behind compared to what OCaml has to offer!

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I'm an outsider but it appears to me that he's addressing your points. You are specifically comparing JSOO to BS and seem to be asking how can BS keep up? You got a response that they are two projects with two different goals, and hence they can't really be compared in the way you are comparing them.

I'm not sure what's driving you crazy about this interaction.

You have half of the picture, I don't believe you have the other half, which is the progress that BuckleScript is actually making in emitting clean, readable JavaScript.

Fortunately, it's rather simple to see for yourself, you just need to head over to https://reasonml.github.io/en/try.html and try out some OCaml/Reason code and see what is emitted. In fact, the playground comes with various examples built-in, if you need some sample code to try out quickly.