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Re: Reason React 0.8
#2The long awaited 0.8.0 release from Reason React is out of beta! This includes a lot of the niceties of writing React but in a very fast, type safe language.
If this is your first time hearing about Reason, watch a video from its creator (Jordan Walke, creator of React) to learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw&t=11s
Fun facts about Reason:
- exports TypeScript! If you have a TS project and looking for some extra speed & stability, you don't have to sacrifice type safety interop
- It powers all of Messenger.com. The team put out a case study where they went from ~10 bugs a week to less than 10 a quarter by switching to Reason
- It uses the npm / yarn ecosystem so you can use your favorite / current packages without looking for something new.
Re: Reason React 0.8
#3The long awaited 0.8.0 release from Reason React is out of beta! This includes a lot of the niceties of writing React but in a very fast, type safe language. If this is your first time hearing about Reason, watch a video from its creator (Jordan Walke, creator of React) to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw&t=11s Fun facts about Reason: - exports TypeScript! If you have a TS project and looking f…
Awesome! Question, say you use TypeScript already, what are the biggest tangible gains in terms of safety (measured by fewer bugs in production) you think can be achieved by using Reason?
Re: Reason React 0.8
#4The long awaited 0.8.0 release from Reason React is out of beta! This includes a lot of the niceties of writing React but in a very fast, type safe language. If this is your first time hearing about Reason, watch a video from its creator (Jordan Walke, creator of React) to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw&t=11s Fun facts about Reason: - exports TypeScript! If you have a TS project and looking f…
> - It powers all of Messenger.com. The team put out a case study where they went from ~10 bugs a week to less than 10 a quarter by switching to Reason
Did they move from Typescript or Javascript?
Re: Reason React 0.8
#5The long awaited 0.8.0 release from Reason React is out of beta! This includes a lot of the niceties of writing React but in a very fast, type safe language. If this is your first time hearing about Reason, watch a video from its creator (Jordan Walke, creator of React) to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw&t=11s Fun facts about Reason: - exports TypeScript! If you have a TS project and looking f…
Congratulations on the release! I have a couple questions for you (and any other contributors!) about the project, but I don't know how to phrase them without coming off as combative. Please accept the following as genuine curiosity rather than malice.
1) You called the 0.8 release "huge" in the release notes, even though it adds 11 new functions, removes 2, and updates 2 compared to 0.7, released a year prior. Is there something else about 0.8 that makes it larger than the sum of the API changes?
2) BuckleScript has seemingly been a one-man show for ~3 years. It is lagging noticeably behind the progress of the main OCaml project (including jsoo). ReasonML has a couple prominent contributors, but the overall (public) activity is dwarfed by Hongbo Zhang's work on BS. Is this because the ReasonML project is considered to be in a stable state, sufficient for production work?
Re: Reason React 0.8
#6The long awaited 0.8.0 release from Reason React is out of beta! This includes a lot of the niceties of writing React but in a very fast, type safe language. If this is your first time hearing about Reason, watch a video from its creator (Jordan Walke, creator of React) to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw&t=11s Fun facts about Reason: - exports TypeScript! If you have a TS project and looking f…
Awesome! Question, say you use TypeScript already, what are the biggest tangible gains in terms of safety (measured by fewer bugs in production) you think can be achieved by using Reason?
With ReasonML and other ML languages the type system is advanced enough to make many error conditions unrepresentable in the type system, and therefore the bugs move from runtime to compile time. Typescript has slowly been making its type system more powerful and exhaustive, but ultimately the fact that it is a superset of javascript will always keep it from having the compile time safety you can get in other languages.
ReasonML (OCaml) natively supports pattern matching, variants (Sum types), polymorphic variants, smart constructors, abstract data types, recursive types, and modules.
When you know how to use all of these features, you can prevent a remarkably large surface of bugs from ever compiling. As a new user, the first feature that will probably bring a smile to your face is pattern matching with variants.
If you are interested I highly recommend the book "Learn Type-Driven Development"
Re: Reason React 0.8
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awesome! Question, say you use TypeScript already, what are the biggest tangible gains in terms of safety (measured by fewer bugs in production) you think can be achieved by using Reason?
With ReasonML and other ML languages the type system is advanced enough to make many error conditions unrepresentable in the type system, and therefore the bugs move from runtime to compile time. Typescript has slowly been making its type system more powerful and exhaustive, but ultimately the fact that it is a superset of javascript will always keep it from having the compile time safety you can get in other languag…
What's the editor support like? TypeScript has industry-leading editor integration with insanely fast response times. I'm always wary of new languages for this reason; I've been burned before by Facebook's own Flow type system.
Re: Reason React 0.8
#8ReasonML is awesome! I personally preferred the "reducer" state modeling mechanism from ReasonReact 0.6, but you can still use it as a library with https://github.com/bloodyowl/reason-react-update
Re: Reason React 0.8
#9The long awaited 0.8.0 release from Reason React is out of beta! This includes a lot of the niceties of writing React but in a very fast, type safe language. If this is your first time hearing about Reason, watch a video from its creator (Jordan Walke, creator of React) to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw&t=11s Fun facts about Reason: - exports TypeScript! If you have a TS project and looking f…
> It powers all of Messenger.com. The team put out a case study where they went from ~10 bugs a week to less than 10 a quarter by switching to Reason
When they did that, I was running into numerous behaviour bugs on Messenger.com. Anything from weird image uploads to link previews not showing up in one chat but working in another etc.
Reduction in pure code bugs is nice and all, but a very synthetic and useless metric overall IMO.
Re: Reason React 0.8
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
With ReasonML and other ML languages the type system is advanced enough to make many error conditions unrepresentable in the type system, and therefore the bugs move from runtime to compile time. Typescript has slowly been making its type system more powerful and exhaustive, but ultimately the fact that it is a superset of javascript will always keep it from having the compile time safety you can get in other languag…
What's the editor support like? TypeScript has industry-leading editor integration with insanely fast response times. I'm always wary of new languages for this reason; I've been burned before by Facebook's own Flow type system.
Reason support in VSCode is very solid.