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I saw no mention of Reason or ReasonReact. I thought they rewrote Messenger in Reason, and so I figured facebook.com would be next. Did Reason fall out of favor
by vosper 6y ago
I saw no mention of Reason or ReasonReact. I thought they rewrote Messenger in Reason, and so I figured facebook.com would be next. Did Reason fall out of favor or something?
- dgellow 6y agoWas Reason ever more than an experiment?
- frou_dh 6y agoThe repos have some activity, but it looks bad that the most recent post on the official blog was in August 2018.
- vosper 6y agoReactReact just had a release (0.8) a few days ago, so it's apparently not dead https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react/blob/master/HISTORY.md https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react/blob/master/HISTORY...
- swyx 6y agolol no, "Did Reason fall out of favor" does not logically follow from "I figured facebook.com would be next". you were simply too optimistic on Reason.
- rickyvetter 6y agoHey - maintainer of ReasonReact here. We don't believe in mandating the tools that people use and there are plenty of good reasons to use TS, Flow, PureScript, Rust, etc. Folks on the Messenger Web team in Facebook like Reason as their language of choice. Reason is used heavily on Messaging code in the old facebook.com and in this rebuilt version. The rebuilding of facebook.com was done quickly and involves almost every web team at Facebook. Almost all of these folks are familiar with Flow and only some are familiar with Reason. Asking every engineer at FB to learn Reason at the same time in addition to the already massive number of new things would have been adding unnecessary risk to this already incredibly risky project.
- vosper 6y agoThanks for the info :)