Yes, it will, especially in terms of ecosystem and integrations with various other technologies in your stack. But in the meantime I would recommend experimenting with it just because when you hit the sweet spot, it can be very productive. One option is a framework I'm working on: https://github.com/yawaramin/re-web/
https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/faq
My main interest in reasonml was writing native code. Looks like it will take some time to get to the same level as the JS backend?