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Hi, lifelong python developer here. Is OCaml a good fit to do REST application servers? I've took a look a year ago but couldn't find well maintained libraries

by parabx 8y ago

Hi, lifelong python developer here. Is OCaml a good fit to do REST application servers? I've took a look a year ago but couldn't find well maintained libraries and it seems that the community is not so focused in general development. Am I wrong? OCaml seems really nice, I've been dabbling with rust for a while, and it feels great working with it but I'd like to try some purer functional languages too. My needs are basically a web container, some way to interface with SQL (ORM or a query builder, with support to PostGIS), some redis, some elasticsearch, nothing too fancy.

prosses 8y ago
You can look at https://ocsigen.org https://ocsigen.org and more particularly at https://ocsigen.org/tuto/6.2/manual/rest https://ocsigen.org/tuto/6.2/manual/rest .
specializeded 8y ago
Not particularly imo, no. A great (albeit maybe not as great as OCaml ;) alternative for web usage would be F# with .NET Core, which has become a joy to work with over the past year or so on macos.
edwintorok 8y ago
You could look at these: https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium https://github.com/inhabitedtype/ocaml-webmachine https://github.com/inhabitedtype/ocaml-webmachine https://github.com/inhabitedtype/ocaml-session https://github.com/inhabitedtype/ocaml-session https://github.com/arenadotio/pgx https://github.com/arenadotio/pgx (there are a few other as well, not sure which one would support PostGIS) https://github.com/Leonidas-from-XIV/slacko https://github.com/Leonidas-from-XIV/slacko When in doubt head over to https://discuss.ocaml.org/ https://discuss.ocaml.org/ and show an example if you run into any trouble.