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Yup, that's a rough start. I don't see how any project could take off with rebranding and splitting from an already small community, Reason users, (itself a s
by cassepipe 5y ago
Yup, that's a rough start.
I don't see how any project could take off with rebranding and splitting from an already small community, Reason users, (itself a split a relatively small community, Ocaml users).
It seems like the road to success is the other way around. Make it a little better while super easy to adopt and iterate on that à la TypeScript or Reason, which can be considered alternate syntaxes for Javascript and Ocaml users respectively and are super easy to adopt whereas forking Reason into yet another programming language that has no ecosystem/community and wait for it to grow is almost always the promise of a bad pain/benefits ratio.
A more thorough explanation of the whole kerfuffle :
https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-rescript-reason-reasonml-and-bucklescript-explained-ab4230555230 https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-resc...
- chrischen 5y agoA lot of the original community members were also functional programming enthusiasts and their recent shift to ReScript has been intentionally alienating them in order to make the language more palatable for newbies to gain marketshare from Typescript. I understand the motivation, but some of the changes involve opinionated omissions of features in order to steer the open source code bases away from more traditional FP paradigms.