Actually, the Reason team is basically made up of experienced OCamlers who wanted to attract the JavaScript community and figured that a familiar syntax would h

Actually, the Reason team is basically made up of experienced OCamlers who wanted to attract the JavaScript community and figured that a familiar syntax would help a lot (I think they were right). See https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why.html#why-reason https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why.html#why-rea... for more details.