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by jasim 3354 days ago
And the OCaml-as-JS community is small and very welcoming. How often can you get first-class support from the compiler makers as a newbie? Hongbo Zhang and Jordan Walke and Cheng Lou are all on the Discord channel and are extremely helpful.

Jump in fellas, the language is powerful, and the community is nice!

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I can testify that the the Discord channels are a very welcoming place.
I can also verify this. The documentation is not perfect, and the fine people who hang out on Discord were able to lead me on how to fix the docs, and get me up and running.

Also, having full Intellisense for a JavaScript like language is amazing! I found it better for Reason than Typesript, oddly enough even in VS Code.