That's kind of a thing already, the ReasonML syntax (not to be confused with ReS...

debugnik 46 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in prod...

That's kind of a thing already, the ReasonML syntax (not to be confused with ReScript, which is a fork of both this syntax and the toolchain). The dune build system supports ReasonML out of the box, I think.