Re:Exploring ReasonML and functional programming
by bobbby on Thursday February 08, 2018 @07:41PM
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> Elm community is more mature which means there is more documentation and libraries available
There's some excellent libraries but the Elm documentation is terrible compared to Reason.
Re:Exploring ReasonML and functional programming
by spacesword on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:41AM
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Agreed, I love Elm but the lack of documentation was a pretty big hurdle for me. Especially because I came from using elixir/phoenix on the backend which I found had excellent guides and docs (for language, framework and most packages).
This does make Elm a lot more approachable, but after a while can feel quite restrictive.
There is bucklescript-tea, which is the Elm architecture in for Bucklescript (and thus also Reason). It is pretty much an exact match, so technically there isn't really anything you are missing out on by going with Reason. In reality the Elm community is more mature which means there is more documentation and libraries available. However bucklescript does interface to javascript a LOT easier - which does open up a much wider ecosystem of javascript libraries.