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Welcome to my site, where I write about the challenges of creating software products, UI engineering, type systems and programming languages, especially JavaScript and Reason.
September 08, 2023 • 25 min read
For the past six years, I have been working with OCaml, most of this time has been spent writing code at Ahrefs to process a lot of data and…
January 23, 2022 • 11 min read
Historically, I have noticed a recurring theme in OCaml forums and Discord, where from time to time someone mentions that Js_of_ocaml —a…
August 25, 2020 • 11 min read
A while back, Dan Abramov mentioned —to my surprise— that it would be relatively easy to have React server side renderer implemented in a…
January 09, 2020 • 10 min read
In this article, we will take a look at the existing landscape of ppx rewriters for BuckleScript. We will also see the work involved in…
May 10, 2019 • 24 min read
BuckleScript is a quite uncommon project. It takes the compiler from one language, OCaml, and modifies it in a way that it becomes more…
March 17, 2019 • 5 min read
When compiling Reason / OCaml applications to JavaScript, there are two main options: BuckleScript and Js_of_ocaml. In this article, we will…
November 26, 2018 • 13 min read
A few days ago, there was a great conversation on Twitter between James Kyle and Jordan Walke about Reason and JavaScript, and what approach…
October 03, 2018 • 11 min read
Disclaimer: migrating an existing product to a new language, even if partially, is one of the most impactful decisions that a team or tech…
April 12, 2018 • 6 min read
BuckleScript is a compiler backend, created by Hongbo Zhang, that allows to build apps using Reason or OCaml code, and produces clean…