[m0meni]

Also they're rewriting messenger in basically OCaml (Reason[0]) i.e. a statically typed FP language.

[0]: https://reasonml.github.io/

[dons]

And "eradicate" for Java... http://fbinfer.com/docs/eradicate.html

we love types. They help us ship stuff faster.

[laylomo2]

This should be upvoted higher. ReasonML is a fantastically beautiful language.

[weberc2]

Yeah, it just needs to work on its tooling and library story. Last time I tried, the OCaml toolchain was such a big pain that the Reason community basically told me to give up and compile to Node. And then there are relatively few native-ReasonML libraries, so you have to figure out how to integrate with OCaml which usually means learning how to _read_ OCaml without clawing your eyes out (I'm only sort of joking).

I'm rooting for Reason, but it has a few nontrivial hills to climb before it's practical.

[Rotareti]

I find it already very practical for web frontend work. Editor support is great if you use VSCode.

[weberc2]

That's encouraging to hear. Unfortunately I don't do much frontend web development, but hopefully if the frontend web-dev story catches on then the backend will follow.