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0 pointsdebugnik4mo ago0 comments

Could you explain how Reason syntax isn't "really willing to modernize in ways that would attract your average programmer"? I'm trying to understand what do you even mean.

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atombender4mo ago

Reason still looks like an ML-style language rather than something from the C family of things (where JavaScript ultimately comes from).

For example, in Reason, a function is:

    let x: (int, int) => int = (a, b) => a + b;

A more JS-like syntax might be:

    fn x(a, b int): int {
      a + b
    }

Or at least:

    let x = fn(a, b int): int {
      a + b
    }

debugnikOP4mo ago

But the Reason example you shared is almost valid TypeScript already!

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/DYUwLgBAHgXBAUBDO...

I've seen JS using lambdas instead of classic functions like that in the wild. And that Reason can be made more JS-idiomatic without changes to the syntax:

    let x = (a: int, b: int): int => a + b;

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