The last ReactJS project I was working on ended up with libraries such as Ramda, ImmubtableJS, recompose, etc, in order to make the codebase more functional...

The last ReactJS project I was working on ended up with libraries such as Ramda, ImmubtableJS, recompose, etc, in order to make the codebase more functional... We also switched to TypeScript for the type-system. While these libs improved the overall experience, it never came close to what you get from a proper functional language. I'm currently working on a frontend that uses ReasonReact and it feels much smoother. > Honest question: why would someone use this instead of React? The libraries I mentioned have __a_lot__ of stars on github, I'm sure many people using them, those might be better off with ReasonML. I hope ReasonML will succeed and the ecosystem catches up. ReasonML is the fucntional general purpose language I always wanted. If they get the concurrency story right it might become a nice functional alternative to Golang as well.