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by tonyhb 2856 days ago
This sounds really cool, and it's exciting to see Elm come along!

I always feel like Bucklescript and the Ocaml ecosystem doesn't get enough love when Elm crops up. Bucklescript has been doing aggressive dead code elimination for some time, and comes with the full type system of ocaml — plus easy JS interop: https://github.com/BuckleScript/bucklescript/wiki/Why-buckle....

As Elm develops I'm finding it harder and harder to choose between bucklescript/ocaml/reason and Elm. It's awesome to have all of these modern tools to work with on the frontend.
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hazza1 2856 days ago
I've found the opposite, all the momentum seems to be with Reason - I don't hear of many new people picking up Elm.

A release with smaller bundle is an amazing technical achievement but doesn't really address the underlying language and ecosystem issues.

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rtfeldman 2856 days ago
> I don't hear of many new people picking up Elm.

We sure do in the Elm community! I suspect this has more to do with who you follow than anything else. :)

For example, if you follow a lot of React folks, you're naturally going to hear a lot more about Reason, because there's a lot of overlap in the people who work on those projects.

Come check out our #beginners channel on Elm Slack sometime! It's constantly buzzing with activity:

http://elmlang.herokuapp.com/

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hazza1 2856 days ago
True, probably a lot of bias in my environment but I interview a lot of people for frontend roles - a couple of years ago Elm was the next exciting language to learn, it's now more often than not Reason.
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rtfeldman 2856 days ago
The last time I interviewed someone who applied because they wanted to use Elm in production was an hour ago.

Elm continues to be our #1 source of applicants, and none of them mention an interest in Reason...but then again, it would make sense that Reason, being newer and endorsed by Facebook, would have more interest in the overall JS community!

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jarcane 2856 days ago
Honestly my love of Elm is part of why I'm completely uninterested in Reason and the direction it's taken.
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chenglou 2855 days ago
I work on Reason. The front-end pie is big enough for Elm and Reason to coexist! Elm’s (hypothetical) loss isn’t a gain for Reason, and vice-versa.
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rtfeldman 2853 days ago
100% agree!

The world is still 99% JS and 1% every compile-to-js language put together.

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tonyhb 2856 days ago
That's reaffirming to hear. I love reason! Work has been BUSY and unfortunately haven't been able to keep up with the changes. Thanks for the heads up :)
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