#7 Coming down from the Melange high
What a week! Last week we announced Melange 1.0 and the support so far has been outpouring.
I recently did Twitch livestream with @d4hines where we pair-programmed our way to a tiny Melange application built with Next.js and React Server Components. The recording is available for the time being, and I’m looking into uploading an edited version. Daniel also made the code available in a repository on GitHub.
With Melange 1.0 available in OPAM, we’re starting to publish ecosystem libraries to OPAM as well. The first one is reason-react; we tagged v0.11 this week and submitted it to the OPAM repository.
I’m personally very excited to reap the rewards of integrating Melange with the OCaml Platform. I was recently pleasantly surprised to realize that Melange is compatible with most OCaml Platform tooling.
I’m looking forward to having a vibrant ecosystem of collaboration and Melange-related libraries! This week, I’d love to highlight some changes that people in the Melange community contributed to the ecosystem:
- @haochenx contributed a change to Dune that attaches the Melange rules to the Dune default alias. The immediate benefit is that just running
dune build(with no additional arguments) will also build the Melange artifacts in your projects. - Over the past few weeks, @psb has helped fix many inconsistencies and make the Melange documentation better on the website.
- everyone who’s boosted the Melange announcement and tried it out since it’s been released. I can’t wait to hear what more of you think.
If you have thoughts on Melange, or would like to reach out, feel free to reply to this email.
Happy hacking!
- Antonio