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Number of financial companies using F# is about the same as for OCaml (but numbers are not evolving in the same manner). F# uses .NET which is way more tested t
by ldsa 16y ago
Number of financial companies using F# is about the same as for OCaml (but numbers are not evolving in the same manner). F# uses .NET which is way more tested than OCaml runtime. F# uses .NET libraries which are way more tested than OCaml libraries. F# core language is still a bit less tested, but considerable work is being done. In contrast, there is only fulltime person working on OCaml. OCaml community is dying, while .NET community is huge.
- zaphar 16y ago.Net being tested is not the same as F# being tested. The idea that the OCaml community is dying is purely subjective. OCaml, having been around longer than F#, may just be going through a perceived lull. Either way generalizing that F# will replace OCaml as the goto language in the ML family from a perceived decline in the OCaml community is probably not the right call.
- eru 16y agoWe also use Ocaml here (Citrix), and people agree that Ocaml seems to be going nowhere. Some projects have started switching to Haskell.