JS_of_OCaml vs Bucklescript

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Also, @bobzhang, it was really disheartening for me to learn that BS added the new |. operator. It’s syntactic sugar that makes it very hard to convert BS to OCaml code compatible with the rest of the ecosystem – you’d essentially have to use camlp4. I think these things need to be weighed very heavily before they’re added, as they slowly turn BS into an incompatible fork of OCaml.

The addition of the |. and the direction of Belt and Reason are indeed heading towards a fork which is very concerning. It’s unfortunate that I can’t build React apps in OCaml using the OCaml ecosystem.