> I sometimes wonder whether people adopt Rust/Haskell/ReasonML for front-end work because they want it to feel like more of an effort than it otherwise would.

> I sometimes wonder whether people adopt Rust/Haskell/ReasonML for front-end work because they want it to feel like more of an effort than it otherwise would. That's ridiculous. There's a lot of garbage to unpack in that sentence, but for example Rust's borrow checker provides valuable guarantees about your code and eliminates entire classes of bugs. It's not just wasted time. Haskell's purity and lazy semantics allows for equational reasoning and more composable abstractions. ReasonML makes it really hard to accidentally write a bug that crashes the program. Etc. Just because you don't see why those things are valuable doesn't mean they aren't.