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I can see why people start to use OCaml more and more for things like CLI tools, metrics collection and other things like http proxying (most of the stuff came
by StreamBright 11y ago
I can see why people start to use OCaml more and more for things like CLI tools, metrics collection and other things like http proxying (most of the stuff came up HN in the last few weeks). I am hoping that OCaml finally gets its momentum and gets more widely accepted. It is a pretty sweet language with amazing features and type class.
- LeonidasXIV 11y ago> It is a pretty sweet language with amazing features and type class Type classes is the one thing that OCaml does not have. It might get a sort of similar to use mechanism called modular implicits, but we will see about that in the future.
- mercurial 11y agoYeah, that's the OCaml version of "the year of Linux on the desktop" :(
- StreamBright 11y agoYou can still be hopeful. :)
- StreamBright 11y agoSorry I meant type system, doing multi tasking did not help :)
- unhammer 11y agoOne thing OCaml does have, however, that I often miss in other languages, is polymorphic variants. Sometimes you want a function to only work on a subset of a variant, without having to write silly handlers for things that the computer ought to be able to check never happen.