Absolutely! If you're looking for fast, GC'd, native functional language I'd say OCaml is a great option. There's actually a very comprehensive set of blog post

Absolutely! If you're looking for fast, GC'd, native functional language I'd say OCaml is a great option. There's actually a very comprehensive set of blog posts migrating an open-source python based project to OCaml, that I'd recommend reading if you're looking for a more thorough comparison - http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-retrospective/ http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-ret... Personally, I used OCaml while at university to write a programming language (http://jsjs-lang.org http://jsjs-lang.org) and totally loved it. Real world OCaml is a great resource and I'd definitely recommend giving OCaml a try. My only regret is that I don't get to write OCaml as much as I want to due to the kind of projects I work on, but given that Bucklescript[0] and Reason[1] are moving ahead in full steam, that might change shortly too :) [0]- https://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/ https://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/ [1] - https://facebook.github.io/reason/ https://facebook.github.io/reason/