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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by cies on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:21PM (#14143549)
> the day when Facebook gives up on flow and adopts Typescript will be a glorious, glorious day.

I foresee FB to skip TypeScript and go straight with ReasonML[0], as 25%[1] of the messenger code base supposedly is already converted to Reason.

And I think that is even more glorious development then FB going with TypeScript. :)

[0]: An easier to approach (for programmers coming from mainstream languages; like JS/C++/Java/C#) syntax on top of the OCaml language, and some new tooling. The tools integrate specifically well with BuckleScript (by JaneStreet) which provides the OCaml compiler with a JAvaScript compile target.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13980062

https://facebook.github.io/reason

https://github.com/vramana/awesome-reasonml (some links to example code in the last section)

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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by trishume on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:53PM (#14145104)
BuckleScript is by Bloomberg, specifically https://github.com/bobzhang, not Jane Street. The developer of js_of_ocaml, the other JS to OCaml compiler, works at Jane Street though.
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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by cies on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @03:56AM (#14146181)
Oops, sorry. Cannot edit anymore. So please everyone read this!
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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by staticassertion on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:56PM (#14144220)
Last time I looked at reason it was totally new and there was no tooling etc. I got little support from the gitter or whatever it was.

Have things changed? It really interested me at the time.

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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by sgrove on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:29AM (#14145445)
Worth stopping by the discord [0], it's grown quite a bit and so has the (editor/build/etc.) tooling. There's no Apollo/Relay story yet (that's the biggest missing piece for me on the client side), but everything else is pretty decent!

[0] - https://discordapp.com/invite/reasonml

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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by twoquestions on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @08:54AM (#14147346)
It was a bit tough to get tooling set up and it doesn't work on Windows, but on Mac (and Linux I assume) it's amazing. Better Intellisense support in VSCode than Typescript!

It is very new though, and I haven't got a complete grip of JS FFI with Reason.

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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by ivan7237d on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:19AM (#14147863)
Hey a quick question — which Flow extension are you using? There's the official one called "Flow Language Support" and another one called vscode-flow-ide.

UPD: sorry, I just realized you were talking about Reason, never mind.

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