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The opam is pretty new. When I looked at OCaml a few years back my phd work, it didn't exist, so there's some churn in the tool chain I think your overstating
by marmaduke 9y ago
The opam is pretty new. When I looked at OCaml a few years back my phd work, it didn't exist, so there's some churn in the tool chain
I think your overstating the pain though. Even in other languages, best practice demands you pin a library version so you wouldn't have some of those issues.
- thesmallestcat 9y agoOPAM was released in 2013 and I recall it being mainstream by 2014. Maybe I am overstating the pain, but I've jumped through hoops for plenty of languages, and OCaml stands alone here. As somebody who's pretty good on the command line and at solving installation issues, the thought of a junior developer trying to get started with OCaml gives me shivers (probably another impetus for Facebook's Bucklescript).
- cies 9y ago> Facebook's Bucklescript I think you mean FB's ReasonML. Buckle is Bloomberg's OCaml-to-JS compiler.