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I understand it’s a major sin to ever talk about syntax but a lot of ReasonML reads like someone’s cat walked across the keyboard

This project is interesting & the folks evidently involved & advocating invested a lot time + smarts but why bother with all this new cognitive load & new universe of subtle problems (bucklescript, interopt, external libs, etc)?

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It's a matter of taste. Syntax isn't an issue if you're used to OCaml (which arguably has worse syntax -- semicolon as a list separator!) so there's no problem for that section of the userbase. I don't know how people coming from JS generally feel.

(Not trolling, no flamewar but asking out of curiosity)

Is ES6 + Typescript in 2019 really so awful that all this effort is required to build rich applications for web?

Perhaps ReasonML is like “the big guns”, but what situation makes it necessary/important/better to use?

This might shed some light: https://www.harigopal.in/talks/2018/jsfoo

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