esy on windows

# ESY ON WINDOWS

...opening up the native Reason ecosystem to Windows developers.

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# Intro

- Bryan Phelps
- Discord, Twitter: @bryphe

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## WINDOWS: STATE OF NATIVE TOOLCHAIN

- [Difficult](https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/) to setup!
- Ecosystem geared towards Mac/Linux
- ~50% of professional developers [use Windows](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-environments-and-tools)

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# [ESY](https://esy.sh)

- Simple workflow for native Reason / OCaml
- Project isolation
- Build caching

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# Demos:

- [hello-reason](https://github.com/esy-ocaml/hello-reason)
- [reason-glfw](https://github.com/esy-ocaml/reason-glfw)

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# Goals

- Building native projects as easy as:
    - `npm install -g esy'
    - `esy install`
    - `esy build`

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# Next steps

- Tooling / editor experience
- Performance improvements
- Upstream Windows patches
- Build cool stuff & spread the word!

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# THANK YOU!