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All these questions are exactly why they rebrand under a single name, ReScript.

- ReasonML is a thin syntactical wrapper on top of OCaml

- To compile it down to Javascript you need Bucklescript, an OCaml-toJS compiler developed by Bloomberg (IIRC)

and so on

All the tools need to be installed from different sites, have their own sets of dependencies and conventions etc.



Not really. ReasonML is vendored and distributed with BuckleScript. It's one install to get started:

    npm install --global bs-platform


They are still completely separate entities when it comes to documentation, library support etc.


Work is done to unify them https://reasonml.org/


The reasonml.org project had a very strong focus on documenting the BuckleScript + Reason workflow (later on it was a goal to add Reason Native docs).

Now that BuckleScript was rebranded to ReScript, we decided to move and simplify the BuckleScript related docs from reasonml.org to rescript-lang.org

As soon as we migrated all our existing Reason / BuckleScript users over to the new ReScript website (with Reason syntax toggling etc), we will most likely redirect reasonml.org to reasonml.github.io, which will yet again focus on pure ReasonML / Native docs.

More details will follow as we are making further progress.




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