Reason doesn't really exist anymore. "Native Reason" was just reskinned Ocaml, and the thing previously referred to as ReasonML continues life as ReScript.
Reason does actually still exists. Rescript is a modified ReasonML syntax + BuckleScript. ReasonML is between the two, a foot in the OCaml world, a foot in the JavaScript world.
It may claim to be that, but in practice it is not. Most of the Reason repos have barely been touched in months, while ReScript continues to have a lot of momentum. The reasonml forums [1] are down to 3 posts in the last month, vs 85 in the rescript forum [2]. I don't know what you mean by "still exists", but in practice you can consider ReasonML to be dead, replaced by ReScript.
It may not look active from the outside, but I'm sure that the companies that used it still use it, while Rescript is still very young.
> ReScript continues to have a lot of momentum
Rescript has 4k weekly downloads on npm. Typescript has 22 millions. Coffeescript 1 million. Reason 1.5k. Elm 22k and it's not the official installer. PureScript 2.5k.
> It may not look active from the outside, but I'm sure that the companies that used it still use it, while Rescript is still very young.
I think I might not have been clear when I said that reason is dead. Let me try again: ReasonML was a sort of collaboration between bucklescript (the ocaml->js compiler) and the Reason syntax. They recently parted ways, with the bukclescript part being renamed to ReScript (as well as using their own syntax). That leaves not much to be under the name "Reason", which is basically just a syntax.
The companies that use it (such as mine) are moving to ReScript. Or, to put it more accurately, they have always been using ReScript just people referred to it as Reason at the time.
> > ReScript continues to have a lot of momentum
> Rescript has 4k weekly downloads on npm
I meant relative to Reason. (fyi: rescript used to be called bs-platform, and that continues to have 8k downloads, so it's more like 12k for rescript)
