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I have gone down the ocaml rabbit hole before. Likely, it was too early in my programming career and I got wrecked by the combination of novel concepts, poor do
by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I have gone down the ocaml rabbit hole before. Likely, it was too early in my programming career and I got wrecked by the combination of novel concepts, poor docs, disjointed toolchain, and lack of ecosystem. I have, in more recent times, played with F# which is very nice.
- xvilka 7y agoA lot of these issues are now solved. OCaml universe now switched to Dune[1] as an uniform buildsystem, using ocamlformat[2] as an uniform formatting tool (succeeding over ocp-indent), Base[3] standard library aims to be the only one, a lot of legacy cruft was removed in recent compiler versions, along with improved error messages. Real World OCaml book[4] is now being modernized for the second edition. Recently even the design of documentation produced with odoc was improved and cleaned up a lot So it tries to catch up with more modern programming languages. [1] https://dune.build https://dune.build [2] https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat [3] https://opensource.janestreet.com/base/ https://opensource.janestreet.com/base/ [4] https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ https://dev.realworldocaml.org/