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Discussion on: Typescript vs ReasonML

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Andrei Dascalu

I am not entirely sure what you mean. Yes, there should always be an ecosystem and community but to which extent they must be separated from the main product it's debatable. Even for Go the core tooling and standard library are developed together with the core platform. Seems to be going well (aka core team + community support) which I guess works when you have decent money commitment behind. Same for Elixir. Not sure how things stand with ReasonML though.

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Minh-Phuc Tran

Sorry for the confusion. What I mean is to have mass adoption, there must be an advocate team dedicated to engaging with the community, talking about it, helping companies and people adopt it, otherwise it is hard to become popular.

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Andrei Dascalu

Oh yes, that makes sense. Definitely missing, though I also have the feeling that Typescript took off largely due to Microsoft boost rather than any organic community. Ironically, ReasonML boasts Facebook as a supporter but that goes under the radar. I would love to see the community growing, that's for sure!