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Can't speak for the creator, but generally speaking OCaml is much more widely adopted than SML (although still tiny market share overall). A few corporate playe
by wcrichton 9y ago
Can't speak for the creator, but generally speaking OCaml is much more widely adopted than SML (although still tiny market share overall). A few corporate players like Facebook and Jane Street have started adopting OCaml, and subsequently the libraries available for OCaml are far superior to SML. As far as I know, SML only remains in use today in academic circles.
- myegorov 9y agoIt's hard to imagine that OCaml's libraries/tooling would be the game changers (drop in the bucket by comparison to the vast JS ecosystem). Would be nice if SMLtoJs compiler got the corporate backing though.
- ihm 9y agoOCaml has pretty good and modern tools (opam, meriln, oasis) and basically all the libraries you would expect, compared to SML which has no editor support, a very minimal stdlib, no package manager, no build system, very few and hard to find libraries, etc.