BTW, anyone here used ReastReason, BuckleScript is it? I've been meaning to look into it but don't have a sense of the payoff. I read that it can coexist which is a great feature. Wonder how it compares to a TypeScript workflow.
And while I like that JSX is built-in, I don’t like that it’s so different. And having to use <div> ReasonReact.stringToElement("Blah") </div> (The spaces are required) everywhere instead of <div>Blah<div> makes it feel like a poor imitation of JSX and isn’t fun at all. But maybe they’ve fixed some of that.
Someone else said Reason is “better”. The type system might be more sound but TS is far more flexible and forgiving, and doesn’t have ugly and off-putting syntax for promises/async and interop.
Types are inferred, i only had to write a type once to disambiguate. Fearless Refactoring. If it compiles it works, except if you built in some logic errors. The compiler will find all syntactic and type errors, which might feel annoying at first but if you reframe it into the compiler is helping you then it is fine.
tldr: Reason is better than both TypeScript and Flow and has equally good interop with native untyped Javascript code.