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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 &
by kangar00857 7y ago
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)?
- kangar00857 7y ago(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?
- jasim 7y agoThis might shed some light: https://www.harigopal.in/talks/2018/jsfoo https://www.harigopal.in/talks/2018/jsfoo
- sweeneyrod 7y agoIt'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.