Comment by fredrikholm

> You gotta remember people are often picking languages based on what they can easily find out about it and extrapolating/guessing about what problems they'll run into with their expected use.

This is a good observation.

As someone who writes a lot of Lisp, I'm inclined to agree as the amount of people that have never written any Lisp yet immediately reject it over syntax over fears that it somehow hampers development is a (to me) surprisingly large number of people.

If I recall correctly, one of the motivating factors for Rescript was to reduce the perceived/real distance between Reason and JS in order to attract more JS devs, as Reason was so heavily associated with OCaml.