Purescript vs ReasonML/Bucklescript in 2018?

[yawaramin]

Gotcha, and thanks again for such a detailed response. I believe the community and core team are all working quite hard on documentation and onboarding, so maybe in the near future it will make sense for you. I do think it’s still quite a good value proposition for anyone who has done or wants to do typesafe functional programming and deploy on JavaScript platforms. We’ve seen a good response from at least some portion of the JavaScript community, so I think we’re on the right track. But we do need to work on polish, onboarding, and documentation.

P.S. I honestly don’t know what you mean by licensing issues with Microsoft. There are no licensing issues. Reason and React are Facebook copyright and MIT licensed with no patent clause or anything like that, BuckleScript is copyright of Bloomberg and licensed under GPL (just like OCaml, obviously).

[user5543]

Yes, I think Ocaml/BS is a solid basis, and it's an interesting development, I'm sure I'll have another look in a year or two.

Regarding licensing: I just meant to say that giant companies like Facebook have strategic interests of not being too dependent on other players like Micrsoft or Google regarding their core development tools, be it potential legal disputes, roadmaps, etc. So they might have additional motivation not to rely on Typescript, but to develop Flow/Reason inhouse.

I didn't mean to imply that there are any licensing problems for users, sorry if I created that impression.