#reason in a Nutshell — Getting Started Guide
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This tutorial intends to provide a comprehensive, but relatively short introduction to Reason.Reason is a programming language built on top of #ocaml. It provides functional and object-oriented features with type-safety and focus on performance. It was created at Facebook. Its syntax is similar to #javascript. The intention is to make interoperation with JavaScript and adoption by JavaScript programmers easier. Reason can access both JavaScript and OCaml ecosystems. OCaml was created in 1996. It is a functional programming language with infered types.The Reason website contains an online playground. It allows to play with the language and see how the generated JavaScript looks like. It can also convert from OCaml to Reason.WhyIn JavaScript types annotation, linting or unified formatting is (...)