Questions: 1. What's the tech stack you used? 2. What was the biggest technical ...

9ranty · on Aug 14, 2020

1. ReasonML, ReasonReact, Mux, roomservice.dev.

2. Exporting our web "video" to .mp4, and keeping media in sync.

3. Better timeline & canvas editing features (plus some organisation features, for people with lots of videos)

4. Loom, mmhmm (at least for the non-live aspect), and slide decks.

rememberlenny · on Aug 14, 2020

Roomservice is incredible for adding multiplayer mode to any app. Very cool to see you using them.

Johnyma22 · on Aug 14, 2020

Etherpad maintainer here, thanks for pointing Room Service at me. Gonna give them a go :)

applecrazy · on Aug 14, 2020

What was the reason why you picked Reason over something like TypeScript (both of which transpile down to JS AFAIK)?

Just curious.

happylinks · on Aug 14, 2020

I've been using Reason for a couple of years in personal projects and I really like its fast compiler, type system, things like variants, modules. I didn't have OCaml experience before but to me it feels like being able to program in a very mature programming language while still being able to target JS. The community is great as well. Also refactoring code has never been easier in my opinion. That's why I also decided to use it for Tella.

I've used TypeScript a lot in the past as well, and I'm not against it at all. You can do a lot of the things you can do with Reason in TypeScript. But I do have the feeling Reason makes me a lot faster than when I worked with TypeScript.