Jordan Walke - React to the Future

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as the best introduction to Reason's motivations, straight from React's creator.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ReasonConf

Topic

reasonml and react

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I'd highly recommend Jordan Walke's (creator of React) talk on the ideas behind ReasonML: React to the Future [1]. I think it's so cool that you can take the ideas of ReactJS - functional programming applied to UI - but then have a language (ReasonML …

• “Why isn’t functional programming the norm?” by Richard Feldman. Spoiler: not on the basis of merits. [LINK] “React to the future” by Jordan Walke. Why ReasonML is a logical extension of ReactJS’ programming paradigm. [VIDEO] “Typing the untyped: soundness in gradual type systems” by Ben …

• The long awaited 0.8.0 release from Reason React is out of beta! This includes a lot of the niceties of writing React but in a very fast, type safe language. If this is your first time hearing about Reason, watch a video from its creator …