Creating a ReasonML Native App: Command Line Arguments

Before going into how specific features were implemented with Reason and OCaml’s help, let’s have a quick look at our application’s logic

Creating a ReasonML Native App: Building and Running

This is by far the most boring piece of this whole endeavor.

Unfortunately, as we accumulate years of experience, old habits accrete on the programmer and tools such as Make become an integral part of our fossilized identity. You will have to forgive me for my use of Makefiles!

Creating a ReasonML Native App: Installing, Editing, Configuring

Installing Reason

First, we will need OCaml. This is because our Reason code will be compiled to OCaml, then, using the OCaml compiler, to native code.

Creating a ReasonML Native App: What We Are Building

I believe this is, as of now (2018), one of few articles you will find about creating a native application using ReasonML. While Facebook came up with this interesting language/syntax that compiles to OCaml, it seems that they have focused their energy on transpiling it to JavaScript using BuckleScript