Funny that you mention that. I literally came across Reason earlier today.
The thing is I’d argue Reason is a step down from JavaScript in terms of syntax.
In all, I’m really happy with React and JSX–I just miss the feeling I have when writing Elixir code, where every character is meaningful.
My issue with JavaScript’s at times slightly verbose syntax is it creates mental friction for me. Imagine reading a made up dialect of English that put “to” in front of all verbs and “a”, “an” or “the” in front of all nouns–
My an issue with the JavaScript’s at times slightly verbose the syntax to is it to creates mental the friction for me…
–It isn’t necessary and makes the sentence harder to read. I have to use effort to filter out these meaningless filler words in order to understand what I’ve written (or debug, for that matter).
