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OCaml vs ReasonML: What are the differences?
What is OCaml? A general purpose industrial-strength programming language. It is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles. It is the technology of choice in companies where a single mistake can cost millions and speed matters, .
What is ReasonML? A friendly programming language for JavaScript and OCaml. It lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.It is powerful, safe type inference means you rarely have to annotate types, but everything gets checked for you.
OCaml and ReasonML can be primarily classified as "Languages" tools.
ReasonML is an open source tool with 7.92K GitHub stars and 374 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ReasonML's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, ReasonML has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to OCaml, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of OCaml
- Satisfying to write5
- Pattern matching4
- Also has OOP3
- Easy syntax3
- Very practical3
- Extremely powerful type inference3
Pros of ReasonML
- Pattern Matching4
- Type System3
- Fun1
- React1
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Cons of OCaml
- Small community3
- Royal pain in the neck to compile large programs1
Cons of ReasonML
- Bindings1