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Tech Talk: The Reason For Types with Jared Forsyth on ReasonML and Javascript

2020/3/16
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Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions.

Adam talked to Jared Forsyth about his journey from untyped javascript to using flow and eventually reasonml.

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"I mean, I was, I'll admit it I was definitely in the: 'I was scarred by Java and C plus plus in an intro to programming class and I never want to look at types again' Camp"

"My first language was Python and followed closely by Javascript. And so I was, I was loving the loosey goosey scripting language. My first experience of using types in JavaScript, I was like is this going to be terrible? Because there's so much overhead in Java and C plus, plus you have to write types for literally everything."

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  • Springboard Scholarship)
  • Reason Town Podcast)
  • ReasonML)
  • Jared's Talk on ReasonML)
  • React with Reason Talk)
  • Types in Javascript)