12:42 <hongbo> hi, what do you think of my suggestions: https://github.com/facebook/reason/issues/634

20:22 <bsansouci> hongbo: agree that it would be nice, but I also think that lists are a better default than arrays. The preprocessor should be able to convert between the two :o

20:22 <bsansouci> :p *

22:26 <han__> So I've spent a week trying to figure out what reason is. I have no clue if its useful for me. Can anyone explain what it is?

22:29 <bsansouci> han__: the way I see Reason is: an attempt at making systems programming better. It uses OCaml "under the hood" but is a new syntax for it + a new build system (not done yet) + a good package manager (coming together). I think the intention is to bring all the niceties of developing in JS for a language that allows for native development.

22:31 <han__> What is OCaml used for?

22:33 <bsansouci> I don't know how much you know about OCaml but it's part of the ML family. It's used a lot by FB for Flow or Infer (language related things) but also by Janestreet for a lot of their backend stuff. It's basically they surprisingly fast high level language that you can use to do systems programming

22:35 <han__> I'm not very familiar on OCaml :). I've been hearing about Reason on twitter and coworkers so I decided to learn about it. So you mentioned its used for native development can you expand on that? Do you mean things like Desktop Applications?