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Ask HN: Is it worht learning OCaml?

3 points by gazarullz 10y ago

I am looking into learning OCaml, from the first glance it looks quite interesting as programming language, I like the pattern matching and the functional side. Beside exploratory learning are there any real opportunities in learning this language? What about a good editor to use with it (I am currently using vim)

chmaynard 10y ago
You might want to learn Standard ML first. The "Programming Languages, Part A" course on Coursera is a good place to start.
- gazarullz 10y ago
  Thanks for the tip, how does ML compare to OCaml from an applicability perspective ?
  - rbehrends 10y ago
    Smaller ecosystem, multiple compilers, simpler language (which can be both good and bad).
NonEUCitizen 10y ago
Yes, if you want to work for Jane Street Capital.
- gazarullz 10y ago
  I am aware Jane Street employs OCaml, is there any other company that is relying on it ?
  - afrisch 10y ago
    Here is an obviously incomplete list: http://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html http://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html
ngzhian 10y ago
Yes! A useful tool for writing OCaml in Vim is Merlin [0]. Facebook uses OCaml as well [1] [2] [3] A great tutorial is [4] [0] https://github.com/ocaml/merlin https://github.com/ocaml/merlin [1] https://github.com/facebook/reason https://github.com/facebook/reason [2] https://github.com/facebook/flow/ https://github.com/facebook/flow/ [3] https://github.com/facebook/infer https://github.com/facebook/infer [4] http://realworldocaml.org/ http://realworldocaml.org/