Critical ReasonML'ing
Brandon Dail at ReactNext 2017
Let's face it, the code we write very rarely resembles the code we send over the wire. Modern web applications are already built with ES6/ES7+, type annotations, JSX, and other language extensions. We treat JavaScript more like a target language: something we compile to, not something we write. If we’re going to treat JavaScript as a compilation target, we should start thinking critically about what we really want in a source language. In this talk, I’m going to try to convince you, through critical ReasonML’ing, that OCaml + ReasonML is one of the most attractive, up-and-coming options to fill this role.