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Have you ever tried playing with OCaml? It's obviously not the same thing as a LISP, but its type system is similar to Rust (Rust was largely inspired by OCaml)
by ragnese 6y ago
Have you ever tried playing with OCaml? It's obviously not the same thing as a LISP, but its type system is similar to Rust (Rust was largely inspired by OCaml) and it's (much) more amenable to playing in the REPL.
- diggan 6y agoI have not, as last time I checked, there was no vim plugin for editor integration with the OCaml REPL, but did another search now and found something that seems to make it possible (https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime) so might test it out at one point. OCaml always looked interesting, but now I could actually try it so thanks for the reminder!
- dunefox 6y agoOcaml more amenable for the REPL than Lisp? You can't be serious. Look at CL with Slime, for example - it's seamless.
- diggan 6y agoNo, they are saying that OCaml is more amenable to REPLs that Rust, which is hard to argue against. They begin their sentence with "obviously not the same thing as a LISP" so I'm sure they are aware that it can't get better than it is with lisps :)
- dunefox 6y agoRight, that makes more sense. I guess my brain didn't parse the sentence correctly.