# Is rescript damaging Ocaml ecosystem?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/is-rescript-damaging-ocaml-ecosystem/7204>\
**Category:** Ecosystem\
**Created:** [February 4, 2021, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/is-rescript-damaging-ocaml-ecosystem/7204 "2021-02-04T08:33:24Z")\
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Do you have any source to back that up? In OCaml it’s never been my  
experience, menhir generates pretty good code and there’s no  
backtracking or lookahead involved. What would make a handwritten parser  
faster exacty?

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