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I'm sorry for misunderstanding OCaml's built in support for named/optional params. The problem with Async is that what seems to be the best resource for learni
by muraiki 11y ago
I'm sorry for misunderstanding OCaml's built in support for named/optional params.
The problem with Async is that what seems to be the best resource for learning OCaml in 2016 teaches Async, not Lwt. I was excited to use it until I discovered that many things I was interested in use Lwt instead. It's not hard to learn Lwt, but this discovery made me think about the problems I've had as a professional Perl programmer in dealing with Perl 5's multiple competing event loops.
- LeonidasXIV 11y agoI can completely understand your worries and I agree that it is rather inconvenient, esp. since Lwt does not have a great introduction to start with. The upside is that with the hopefully soon upcoming algebraic effects that are supposed to appear in OCaml sooner or later, Lwt and Async might end up being obsoleted or subsumed into a compatible set of Async primitives.