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OCaml All the Way Down

• badrabbit 8y ago
  I wanted to learn more OCaml but I read it does not handle concurrency well. Is that still the case? That was the main reason I did not pursue it even though it seemed like a pleaseant language (same with Dlang)
  • ernst_klim 8y ago
    It has a great concurrency support with lwt[1] and async[2] libraries. What it lacks is shared memory parallelism. There is a multicore runtime in active developement [3] (it also adds fibers and algebraic effects) [1] http://ocsigen.org/lwt/ http://ocsigen.org/lwt/ [2] https://janestreet.github.io/guide-async.html https://janestreet.github.io/guide-async.html [3] https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore/wiki https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore/wiki