[sharno]

The strongest point for TypeScript is its tooling and editor support that made it so easy use to use it in development. Even anyone writing JS in VSCode gets to use some checking from TS. But that bloat in the language and the amount of features added with every release is making me a lot worried.

ReasonML is great but it still so immature with little issues here and there that might be annoying to some people. I expect it to be a great alternative in the future but not now.

That's for example what makes something like Elm much better. How Elm dealt with the whole echosystem to make it use separate packaging system, not bad editors support (needs a lot of improvement for VSCode IMO) and the simplicity of the language made it a really powerful alternative that I'd use instead whenever possible.