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But this is what I don't get. Why is OCaml (or some other language of ML lineage) not a more accessible platform for web development? Or perhaps it is, and I'm

• avasthe 6y ago
  They didn't have corporate backing. They didn't have aggressive marketing or zealous community. They didn't have massive influx from ruby rails or javascript webshit crowds.
• thelazydogsback 6y ago
  I've used F# for many web projects - server side and transpiled to client-side. For example, see: https://safe-stack.github.io/ https://safe-stack.github.io/ Also: https://www.purescript.org/ https://www.purescript.org/
• cemerick 6y ago
  > Why is OCaml (or some other language of ML lineage) not a more accessible platform for web development "Web development" is a grueling land war that requires massive investment in foundational libraries and fairly sophisticated tooling just to do a modern "hello world" app. Any language/platform that isn't explicitly dedicated to "web development" will always be lagging many generations behind those that do (i.e. rails and waves hands javascript). I agree with the sentiment that Rust and OCaml aren't really peers. More generally, the urge to transition to Rust in general application development is as puzzling to me as it is to your parent here: it has unique benefits for systems programming, but that absolutely carries costs for a ton of non-systems contexts where you could just as easily use OCaml, or (modern) Java, or ...