I liked Ocaml last time I had a go, but after getting to the point I could fumble my way around (can write a toy ray-tracer level proficiency) I couldn't really

I liked Ocaml last time I had a go, but after getting to the point I could fumble my way around (can write a toy ray-tracer level proficiency) I couldn't really work out what I was supposed to do with it. The reason why a lot of people write C++, for instance, is not because they like it or think it's a particularly good language, but it's because an amazing amount of (for instance) graphics and maths libraries are written with the C++ developer in mind. It seems to me that the pain of working with a language you don't particularly like is way less than the pain of working with no libraries, or doing awkward FFI everywhere.