[kcorbitt]

I've been following Bucklescript's development from the sidelines for the last couple of months along with Facebook's Reason (https://facebook.github.io/reason/javaScriptCompared.html).

I'm very optimistic about the future of these two projects. Both are working hard to build a soundly-typed platform on top of the JS ecosystem. While there are tons of existing languages that can be compiled to JS, the most successful ones are those (like Typescript) that embrace the npm ecosystem and the huge community investment it represents.

Both Bucklescript and Reason have a huge focus on seamless JS interop and DX, and stand a good chance of bringing soundly-typed functional programming to a much wider audience!