I’m planning to do some fancy social science analysis of the results, but first I’ll just give you a dump of the summary data that came out of this.
First of all, there were 398 responses! Thanks to everyone who contributed :)
Do you use Reason?
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Yes: 238 (60%)
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No, but I want to: 106 (27%)
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No, I’ve stopped: 38 (10%)
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No, never: 16 (4%)
What resources do you use for news, getting help, etc?
Top 6 responses
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Reason Discord (60%)
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@reasonml twitter account (59%)
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Reason.town podcast (45%)
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“Try Reason” playground (41%)
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Reason.chat forum (35%)
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Real World OCaml (33%)
Have you helped someone else to learn Reason?
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No: 182 (60%)
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Yes: 82 (23%)
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Yes, several people: 80 (23%)
What topics do you want to hear about on the Reason Town podcast?
Top 3 responses
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Advanced-level content about Reason/OCaml: 72%
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Interviews with core Reason/OCaml contributors: 69%
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News about what’s happening in the community: 57%
What topics would you like to hear about at Reason Conferences?
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“lessons from using Reason in production”: 89%
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coding philosophy / higher-level talks: 68%
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“I used reason in an unexpected way”: 42%
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how to use (x Reason library): 41%
How do you use Reason?
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hobby / side projects: 263 (78%)
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at work, not yet in production: 80 (24%)
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at work in production: 69 (21%)
What platforms are you developing on?
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Mac: 77%
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Linux/BSD: 37%
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Windows: 11%
What platforms are you targeting?
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JS on the Web: 319 (93%)
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Node.js: 132 (39%)
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React Native: 78 (23%)
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Desktop native: 69 (20%)
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iOS: 24 (7%)
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Android: 20 (6%)
What editor do you use most when writing reason?
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VSCode: 65%
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Vim: 15%
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Atom/Nuclide: 8%
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Emacs: 7%
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Sublime: 1%
Which of these do you use together with Reason?
Top 4 responses
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npm: 85%
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bsb: 81%
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webpack: 61%
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opam: 21%
How long have you been using Reason (not OCaml)?
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not using / just getting started: 20%
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under 3 months: 25%
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under a year: 42%
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over a year: 11%
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over two years: 3%
How long have you been using OCaml?
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never used OCaml (outside of Reason): 73%
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0-1 year: 16%
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1-3 years: 6%
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3-6 years: 3%
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6+ years: 2%
What languages, other than Reason/OCaml, are your primary development languages?
Top 7 responses
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JavaScript: 82%
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TypeScript: 35%
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JS + Flow: 30%
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Python: 23%
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Java: 14%
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Elixir: 12%
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Elm: 10%
How long have you been programming?
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0-1 years: 1%
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1-3 years: 12%
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3-6 years: 25%
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6+ years: 63%
What’s the most important improvement that would help your team adopt Reason?
Top 6 responses
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Community resources: 22%
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Javascript Interop: 17%
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Docs: 17%
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Stability: 16.5%
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IDE Support: 9%
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Language Features: 7%
What’s on your Bucklescript wishlist?
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Improved JSON handling: 51%
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Improved JS interop: 45%
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Better Error messages: 40%
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Better debugging: 40%
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A more recent version of OCaml: 39%
What’s on your Reason (syntax) wishlist?
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async/await: 77%
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sugar for optionals/results: 45%
What’s on your Native development wishlist?
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More documentation: 64%
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Easier toolchain: 53%
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More community libraries: 42%
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Cross-compilation: 41%
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More recent version of OCaml in bsb-native: 34%
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Easier interop with C/ObjC: 15%
Which of these libraries do you use?
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Reason-react: 88%
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Belt: 63%
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bs-json: 46%
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bs-css: 26%
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reason-apollo: 24%
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reason-scripts: 19%
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bs-react-native: 18%
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reprocessing: 12%
I don’t use Reason because (53 responses)
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Reason doesn’t have the libraries I need: 40%
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Reason seems too risky to use in production: 32%
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Reason doesn’t have enough documentation: 32%
What languages are you fluent in?
(listing languages with >= 5%)
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English: 94%
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French: 11%
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Spanish: 9%
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German: 8%
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Russian: 7%
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Portuguese: 5%
That’s all, folks!
Like I said, there’s a lot more analysis I want to do, but I’ve been sitting on this long enough that I just wanted to put something out there.