Skip to content
Reason Town podcast artwork

PODCAST · technology

Reason Town

by Murphy Randle

A podcast about the ReasonML language and the community that makes it good.

Publisher-supplied feed metadata · PodParley refreshed Apr 5, 2026 · Source feed

Episodes

  1. Gabriel Nordeborne and Murphy on Reason Relay

    # Reason Town Show Notes - Gabriel Nordeborne (26) Talking points: - GraphQL - [Relay](https://github.com/facebook/relay) - How can the community support Reason Really and Gabriel? - Give feedback - Help cleanup the codebase - Just use it and let him know how you feel (good or bad)! Useful things...

  2. Ulrik Strid and Murphy on Reason-Native Web and More

    Topics: - reason-native web - reason-jose - ocaml-cookie - Azure pipeliens & Windows! Links: - [GitHub - ulrikstrid/reason-native-web: Basic toolkit for writing native web applications in reason](https://github.com/ulrikstrid/reason-native-web) - [GitHub -...

  3. Yawar Amin and Murhy on Types and Native HTTP (Episode 24)

    # Reason Town Show Notes - Yawar Amin (24) Murphy and Yawar discuss Type driven development, and ReWeb, Yawar’s project for easy HTTP servers on the native side: https://github.com/yawaramin/re-web Yawar’s pick: https://monkey.org/~marius/funsrv.pdf Murphy’s pick:...

  4. Murphy & Hoss Talk about Using Reason in Production (Episode 23)

    # Reason Town Show Notes - 23 - Welcome back! - Sorry we were gone for so long - Jared’s doing well but we have Hoss on today. - Announcements and news: - Lots of new versions of bucklescript. Some of the biggest enhancements: - New versions of OCaml - Better error messgages - Changed runtime...

  5. PSA (Public Service Announcement)

    We're taking a short break while Jared becomes a Dad for the first time, and Murphy preps a workshop! Please follow this link: https://anchor.fm/reason-town/message to record and send us questions or feedback. We'll review them, and maybe you'll get to be on the show, too! And while you're at it,...

  6. Reason Template PPX (Macros)

    This one is a screen share! Jared shows Murphy all about his new PPX for easily writing macros in Reason. Video: https://youtu.be/sTL1f5gdHpY

  7. Things We Would Like To Improve

    Jared and Murphy talk about things they'd like to see improved in the language and in the community, and how to work around some of those things today.

  8. Mac Apps, Async Error Handling, and Server Observability

    Jared and Murphy discuss Jared's experimentation with creating Mac apps with Reason, and then delve into async error handling, building a server abstraction on top of bs-espress, and observability with Datadog.

  9. Sean Grove & OneGraph

    Murphy talks with Sean Grove about writing the entirety of OneGraph’s back-end in ReasonML on OCaml native!

  10. Elm to OCaml, Technical Debt, and Escape Hatches with Paul Biggar

    Jared Forsyth interviews Paul Biggar of CircleCI & DarkLang.com about his transition from Elm to OCaml, technical debt, and escape hatches in programming languages

  11. Reason & React Native with Callstack.io's Mike Grabowski

    The current status of React Native + Reasonml, and a hint at the future.

  12. Auto-serialization & Full Stack

    Auto-serialization & Full Stack. About Jared's project for auto serialization of data types (with migrations!) And Murphy's recent thoughts on error handling, major refactoring, and hammering out a new feature with full-stack Reason!

  13. Error Handling and "Let Anything"

    Jared and Murphy talk about error handling patterns, and Jared's PPX "let anything".

  14. Potpourri

    Jared and Murphy talk about a selection of news, Async / Await in Reason, Reason on the Server, and a new editor plugin!

  15. Building an Inclusive community

    A chat with Laura Gaetano about her @ReasonConf talk "Building Inclusive Open Source Communities" https://youtu.be/dUCErIbL_r4 https://twitter.com/alicetragedy

  16. Server-side

    Writing Reason on the server? Hint: No. And yes.

  17. Reason Conf

    Murphy talks with Patrick Stapfer and Nik Graf about organizing Reason Conf 2018 in Austria. The first Reason conference ever!

  18. GraphQL

    Jared and Murphy talk about Reason Conf, Bucklescript releases, and using GraphQL from Reason!

  19. Why Reason got started, with Jordan Walke

    Jared interviews Jordan Walke, creator of React & the Reason project, about why Reason got started and what the future holds.

  20. Ben Sansouci & Avery Morin: Making Games in Reason & Native Compilation

    An interview with Ben Sansouci and Avery Morin about Reason game development (via Reprocessing), compiling Reason to native, and Reason on Windows.

  21. Reason Philosophy and Stewardship with Cheng Lou

    Cheng Lou comes on as our first-ever guest to talk about philosophies guiding the Reason project, and what things are coming up in the future, for Reason and ReasonReact.

  22. Wrapping and Interacting with Javascript

    Murphy and Jared talk about how Reason's support for wrapping and interacting with Javascript

  23. Getting Started

    Jared and Murphy list some resources and talk about getting started with Reason.

  24. Episode 1 - Introduction

    Jared and Murphy introduce the Reason language and tell how they started using it.

Type above to search every episode's transcript for a word or phrase. Matches are scoped to this podcast.

Searching…

We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.

No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.

Showing of matches

No topics indexed yet for this podcast.

Loading reviews...

ABOUT THIS SHOW

A podcast about the ReasonML language and the community that makes it good.

HOSTED BY

Murphy Randle

CATEGORIES

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Reason Town have?

Reason Town currently has 26 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.

What is Reason Town about?

A podcast about the ReasonML language and the community that makes it good.

How often does Reason Town release new episodes?

Reason Town has 26 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

Where can I listen to Reason Town?

You can listen to Reason Town on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.

Who hosts Reason Town?

Reason Town is created and hosted by Murphy Randle.
URL copied to clipboard!