ConfPad

Reason community is growing rapidly, and a lot of people are interested in leveraging it on their servers. One way to achieve this is to use native OCaml compiler. It produces exceptionally performant binaries, but the native ecosystem is scarce, and you will struggle with finding solutions for very common tasks. Another option is to use BuckleScript and compile everything to JavaScript. You would regain access to the vast Node.js ecosystem but would have to sacrifice performance. It seems that you have to choose either ecosystem or performance. In this talk, I will show how to preserve both by compiling Reason code to native Node.js addons. I will present a toolkit that makes it easy and fun, walk through its features and examples and talk a bit about its internals and advanced OCaml features used.