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the advantage of F# over OCaml is that your ecosystem is way larger... you can always 'snarf' c# libraries.
by toolslive 6y ago
the advantage of F# over OCaml is that your ecosystem is way larger... you can always 'snarf' c# libraries.
- randompwd 6y agosure, but c# ecosystem is nothing compared to jvm, rails, go, js etc..
- eatonphil 6y agoSure, but there's no equivalently mature OCaml-like language for the JVM (Scala doesn't count)
- Ivoah 6y agoAsking as someone with no OCaml experience but who quite enjoys Scala, why does it not count?
- dkarl 6y agoI don't know OCaml, so I can't give you a great answer, but I know that OCaml has a different type system that has some features that Scala 2 lacks, such as union types.
- yawaramin 6y agoOCaml doesn't have union types. It has what it calls variants, and what is generally known as Algebraic Data Types. So does Scala 2.
- eatonphil 6y agoThey are radically different languages, even if they're from the same family. Scala is about as similar to OCaml as Rust is to OCaml. Rust and Scala are a world apart from OCaml and Standard ML in terms of language complexity. And then F# literally has an OCaml compat mode because they are so similar (F# has a bunch of convenient syntax extensions if you don't mind not using the compat mode).
- jalude 6y agoHuh, I haven't had any library issues with c# for years. Although your right, the js and jvm ecosystems are larger. I don't think it is an issue.
- moron4hire 6y agoThere is definitely a quantity vs quality issue in the JS world. I don't think it's fair to say JS' ecosystem is better than C#'s because it's bigger. There's a hell of a lot of shit code on NPM.
- pumanoir 6y agoIndeed but not only C# but all of .Net's. So that gives you quantity. But more importantly (at least to me) is that the quality of libraries is much higher than those of the JS (which is what I'm more familiar with) ecosystem.
- gameswithgo 6y agoand you can use threads
- hawk_ 6y agoburn