If you write a FOSS project, more people will help you if it's Scala or Crystal over Ocaml. My guess at a little over 1,000 stars for Ocaml but 7,000 for Crysta

If you write a FOSS project, more people will help you if it's Scala or Crystal over Ocaml. My guess at a little over 1,000 stars for Ocaml but 7,000 for Crystal. There's that. ;) For psychological reasons, things that build on what's familiar get increased adoption. Trend started with C syntax that I can tell.