ConfPad

You may have heard a bit about Reason -- the new initiative out of Facebook to bring JavaScript-flavored OCaml goodness to web developers everywhere -- but what's the big picture?Reason has a lot of things going for it: fantastic JavaScript interop, a powerful, battle-tested type system with cross-file inference, macros, and plenty of hype. It was started by the folks at Facebook who invented and built React, and already powers a substantial portion of Messenger.com.We'll go over the basics of Reason, and answer these questions:What does it look like to write React UIs with Reason? When will Reason be ready for me to use at work? What does it look like to incrementally adopt Reason in a JavaScript codebase?What tradeoffs has Reason chosen, and how do they compare to other languages?