Facebook’s Reason programming language is based on OCaml but uses a syntax that is familiar to JavaScript developers.

Facebook’s Reason programming language is based on OCaml but uses a syntax that is familiar to JavaScript developers.

Reason can almost be considered a statically typed, faster and simpler cousin of JavaScript, minus the cruft and with more powerful features.

You can even do React development using it. Reason compiles to JavaScript and also to native.

https://reasonml.github.io/guide/what-and-why

This seems like such a no brainer it’s amazing you don’t see more articles like this one.

This seems like such a no brainer it’s amazing you don’t see more articles like this one.

Vue is philosophically more like Angular 1 than Angular 2+ is. Code conversion is also simpler and there’s no need to embrace transcompilation just to run it.

Vue also performs better than Angular 1 (and even React) and has plenty of corporate money backing it.

http://blog.holistics.io/why-and-how-we-migrated-from-angularjs-to-vuejs/

Advertising is awful but internet advertising is evil.

Advertising is awful but internet advertising is evil. Think about this next time you argue about the advantages of targeted, personalised advertising. This stuff needs to be blocked from all your devices.

“If you want to make the point that advertising networks should be more concerned with privacy, the bogeyman you usually pull out is that big corporations know so much about you. But people don’t really care about that,” says University of Washington researcher Paul Vines. “But the potential person using this information isn’t some large corporation motivated by profits and constrained by potential lawsuits. It can be a person with relatively small amounts of money and very different motives.”

https://www.wired.com/story/track-location-with-mobile-ads-1000-dollars-study/