In this episode I talk with Jared Forsyth. We talk his exploration of programming languages, his exposure to programming languages, work in the Reason community, Reason Town, and more.Our Guest, Jared Forsyth@jaredforsyth on Twitterjaredly on Githubhttps://jaredforsyth.com/Reason Town@ReasonTownFM on TwitterConference AnnouncementsPyCon Colombia 2018 will be taking place February 9th, 10th & 11th in Medellin, Colombia. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.pycon.co/.Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.:clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.Micheal Nygard will be hosting a 5-day workshop “Monolith to Microservices” on March 12th-16th in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. For more information, and to register, visit: https://n6consulting.com/workshop/monolith-to-microservices/CodeBeamSF will be taking place March 15th and 16th, with training taking on the 12th-14th and 19th-21st of March. For more information, and to register, visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2018.Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.ElixirConf EU will be taking place April 16th and 17th in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit: http://www.elixirconf.eu/.BuzzConf will take place the Thursday 26th of April, with workshops on Friday April 27th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, and to register, visit: http://buzzconf.org/.Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About JaredKahn AcademyHow Jared got into programmingGame-MakerPythonJavaC++C#RacketJavaScriptCoffeeScriptClojureScriptFlowGoRustReasonWhat languages were Jared using consistentlyLanguages bleeding in between each otherThings Jared ran into in the different languagescore.typedWebAssemblyWhat were the things Jared was looking for in a languageWhat put Reason on Jared’s radarThe current state of Reason for adoptionCurrent state of integration with JavaScriptOCamlBuckleScriptReasonReactReason React NativeWhere the Reason adoption is primarily taking place at this pointpack.reTargeting native devices on iOS and Android with ReasonJared’s work in ReasonBlogging Reason experimentsMaking a cross-platform mobile game in Reason/OCamlReason Town“Languages live or die by their community”Format of Reason TownFirst Reason Conference in ViennaGeographic distribution of ReasonWhere to stay up to date with ReasonReason WebsiteReason Discord ChannelReason Articles on Reason websiteWhat excites Jared in the Reason communityReason React compiled to native iOS without JavaScript bridgeesy package managerPlaces to contribute to ReasonReason on TwitterReasonML Hub on TwitterAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.