“Rust. Close cousin of ours!” — As a fan of Rust, Reason does seem like the thing I’m most likely to want to use for front end dev.https://twitter.com/johann_sonntag/status/930739013673156609 …
Perhaps. I think there will always be a pretty big cost to loading up a Rust wasm bundle though. Reason compiles to comparatively small amounts of JS. E.g. https://reasonml.github.io/try/?reason=C4TwDgpgBMBOHQLxQDIQIYDMoB8oDkB7AEwgAoBLAO2ABoZ4J64EBKAbgChOAbCYKPADGUAM4BXALZREnKFEziqc3KgzZEAPigAGFXiKkyAN3Q9xTKH0x1BFAOYALYKxnbT56AGoxUstZcoHwlJMlgHZw5uPgFJEAAVRhkVQ3IVeQBGWnSCEnIAJnpUsgAWejQscvVWIryyADYqyrUsVhqc4oBmWqMAVibMAZrcowB2AaHWFSjOELI4xLZcbQApUQA6HkJ7diA …
there is even an "if you don't like reason" section in the docs.