Perguntas Q&A Cheng Lou (Reason/React)

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by: @grsabreu

Um pouco mais sobre o Cheng Lou pra vocês terem uma ideia melhor de que perguntar fazer

Cheng Lou, trabalha no Feice:

• Ele tá no time por trás do ReasonReact e de Reason.
• Criou o ReactMotion
• Ajudou muito na codebase de React (https://github.com/facebook/react/commits?author=chenglou)
• ETC!

Links sobre ele

https://medium.com/@chenglou https://twitter.com/_chenglou?lang=en https://github.com/chenglou

Talks fodásticas:

Taming the meta language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0T5OSSzxms

Reason Conf Keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMeIhjaKnQ

React Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE

[fakenickels]

Are there any plans to provide an official Relay-like GraphQL client for Reason as an approach to get more people using it?

[Rafael-Ramblas]

Why the functional approach to React? How this idea came and why Ocaml was chosen to be the code base?

[AndreiCalazans]

Do you think reasonML has potential to be more than just a compiled to JavaScript language? Can it become itself a language compiled directly to machine code or any other low level language?

[AndreiCalazans]

As for mid 2018 is it safe to start a to production project with reasonML, will my company still face some difficulties with its adaption?

[fakenickels]

Why should JS devs get into ReasonML if we have relatively easier options like TypeScript and Flow? What points Reason can offer that neither TS and Flow can't?

[fakenickels]

A async and await equivalent to ReasonML is a lot expected by JS devs experiencing with it for the first time, but seems to be a subject of large discussion still in Reason. What are the current problems of such port to Reason and what you would recommend people to use instead for now?

[fakenickels]

Do you think Category Theory is overrated? Or is it something that would make everyone a better coder if they would take some time to learn it or grasp its basics?

[diegohaz]

How was the process for you to start working at Facebook?

[diegohaz]

How did you learn English and French? Do you have another language you would like to learn?

[diegohaz]

I'm planning to move to Canada, but I don't know where exactly. I only know BC (Vancouver and Victoria). What would you suggest?

[diegohaz]

What's the thing you like most about working at Facebook?

[guilhermedecampo]

What was the hardest problem you had to deal with lately?

[guilhermedecampo]

What is a normal day for Cheng Lou?

[matheus1lva]

Why ocaml was only known and used in the academic environment? Are there any particular reasons for it to not had became a "mainstream" language?

[fakenickels]

What is your current development setup? I mean, if you always install things directly in your system or you use a sandboxed environment for each project like Docker or something else

[tcodes0]

If you could change anything in how people think about programming what would it be?

[tcodes0]

What is in your opinion the biggest hurdle programmers face when learning a new programming language?

[tcodes0]

How essential is math for a person to work at the industry nowadays? E.g. Can I get by with poor math skills?

[tcodes0]

Emacs or Vi? What is your text editor/IDE of choice and why do you like it?

[tcodes0]

How was the process of making a programming language?

[JCMais]

What are the challenges of deploying GraphQL at scale?

[ghost]

Are there any groundbreaking solutions applied to ReasonML design that will or already contributed to the programming languages research community?

[sibelius]

any plans to provide better types for GraphQL on flowtype/typescript/reason https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/issues/574?

[sibelius]

What code structures do you still can't type properly on Facebook codebase?

[sibelius]

Have you used SapFix https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/facebook-sapfix-debugger/?

How does this works? it recommends knows fixes for known issues?

[sibelius]

Your talk spectrum of abstraction opened my mind about all the trade offs libraries/packages and frameworks has to decide when choosing an abstraction. What powerful abstractions have you seen that changed your mind?

[sibelius]

How Facebook Products decides to be more generic or more specific, how to handle abstractions when building products for end users?

[sibelius]

What abstractions are still missing in development? frontend/backend/mobile

[sibelius]

Is there any discussion on merge Flowtype efforts with Typescript?

[sibelius]

Where did you get all the knowledge to talk about the spectrum of abstraction?

[sibelius]

Will Reason have support to generators, async await, async generators and other async sugars syntaxes?

[sibelius]

What are your thoughts on generators in React land, like this POC: https://github.com/Astrocoders/recontainers?

[sibelius]

How do you debug a production bug?

[gustavo-depaula]

What are your opinions on react-spring? What's the future of react-motion?

[pietrofxq]

Which books you think every developer should read?

[matheus1lva]

How would you suggest the introduction of reason/reason-react to a company to be? How would the process be to cause less friction possible?

[tiagocedrim]

What are the "required" skills a Front End Leader should have? (In your point of view)

[fakenickels]

What's your thoughts on React Hooks? Is https://github.com/Astrocoders/reason-epitath a good alternative for now?

[sibelius]

7 reasons to use reason

[sibelius]

hooks reasons

[sibelius]

concurrent reason

[sibelius]

async reason

[sibelius]

reason + relay

[sibelius]

reason + graphql

[sibelius]

reason + php

[sibelius]

what do you want to automate?

[sibelius]

what is missing on monorepo tooling in open source?

[medson10]

in belt module doesn't have a filter function on array module, is this because it's not done yet or is this because exist some technical limitation on do this function?

[medson10]

do you think study and learn OCaml is nice? (thinking on the current scenario and on the future of web development)

[medson10]

do you think binding javascript modules is a nice effort or we should convert the most used ones for reason and stop to use the js version? (thinking if in the future reason will be compiled to binary)