A Pragmatist's Guide to Reasonml

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Argues that ReasonML + BuckleScript compiles to readable JavaScript with 100% type sound and provable inference, offers 10x faster compilation than TypeScript in benchmarks, and produces tiny bundles; shows React components working, seamless JS interop and raw-JS escape hatches, and cites real wins: messenger moved to mostly Reason and cuts build times to <100ms and bugs to ≈10/year, turning days-long refactors into minutes.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:47TYPES TOOLCHAIN INTEROP
3. 7:03Familiar Powerful
4. 13:22"67" obviously
5. 14:19WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT TYPES?
6. 18:36HOW?
7. 18:51Human readable JS output
8. 25:38LETS BUILD SOME REACT!
9. 28:40SHOULD I USE REASONML TODAY?
10. 29:33MEDIOCRITY KILLS

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