[scottmf]

As much as I want to love it, I’ve found it far too restrictive, which makes it difficult to play around with and learn (although error messages have recently improved).

And while I like that JSX is built-in, I don’t like that it’s so different. And having to use <div> ReasonReact.stringToElement("Blah") </div> (The spaces are required) everywhere instead of <div>Blah<div> makes it feel like a poor imitation of JSX and isn’t fun at all. But maybe they’ve fixed some of that.

Someone else said Reason is “better”. The type system might be more sound but TS is far more flexible and forgiving, and doesn’t have ugly and off-putting syntax for promises/async and interop.

[baddox]

I find the benefits outweigh those disadvantages, but I would never suggest switching to Reason for a non-experimental project at work because I think the disadvantages scream “this isn’t quite ready yet.”

[jey]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to syntactic sugar for JSX strings and async/await.