4 ms·

reasonML / reasonML + bucklescript amount to about 25%, it's been out for 4 years while CAML was out for 30+. Yet the wording makes it sound like it's disappoi

reasonML / reasonML + bucklescript amount to about 25%, it's been out for 4 years while CAML was out for 30+. Yet the wording makes it sound like it's disappointing "used by only 25%", "maybe the survey was not advertized enough in the Reason community". Actually, the fact that someone can show up with a transpiler that makes the language curly braces friendly and get 25% market share just like that is just puzzling.

yawaramin 6y ago
The majority of the Reason/ReScript community for sure did not fill out this survey. There is a large selection bias for OCaml. One of the obvious indicators: 191 of the respondents work in banking/finance sector.
- zulu314 6y ago
  So? Bucklescript was invented at Bloomberg IIRC
  - yawaramin 6y ago
    It was created originally at Bloomberg but I've never heard of that level of adoption internally in BBG. Nowadays from what I've seen the highest adoption is at various web devs in Europe and US.
didibus 6y ago
Ya it's crazy how syntax can impact popularity like that. ReasonML is the same compiler, sample semantics, just a different coat of paint and it's already gaining more popularity than OCaml in the same timespan.
- readarticle 6y ago
  Have to consider the context though, I’d point to it being a front end NPM compatible language from the same FAANG that React is from (vs a language from French academics that’s used in less popular domains) before curly braces. Elm uses a more traditional ML syntax and AFAIK is more popular than Reason, though that’s complicated by it not using React and both of them being dwarfed by Typescript.