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You might be interested in Ocaml.
by freeone3000 6y ago
You might be interested in Ocaml.
- fredrikholm 6y agoSemi-relevant: Dark is being rewritten _from_ Ocaml[0]. [0] - https://blog.darklang.com/leaving-ocaml/ https://blog.darklang.com/leaving-ocaml/
- sswezey 6y agoIt's funny you say this when the original article was about the company moving away from OCaml due to a number of issues.
- freeone3000 6y agoThose issues are primarily unfamiliar tooling and lack of library support, which are indeed fixed by .NET, but could hardly be fixed by anything dissimilar.
- brmgb 6y agoNo, they are moving from OCaml because it "has been a little unsatisfactory". If you read their blog post, you will see it's mostly self-inflicted pain: they suddenly discovered vendors don't ship SDK for niche languages, they wrote single threaded code because they couldn't figure out how Lwt - probably the most popular OCaml library - works and apparently couldn't be bothered to ask and failed to understand how the debugger works (like GDB and with documentation shipped with the compiler). I mean, F# is a very reasonable choice if you want the .Net ecosystem and will most definitely solve the SDK issue but the whole thing certainly didn't convince me to try Dark.
- freeone3000 6y agoIs the person I'm responding to a member of the Dark development team? I was unaware!
- brmgb 6y agoDon't do passive aggressive comment. It's both obnoxious and against the site guideline. State what you have to state. I just thought your comment was top-level. It's unobvious on mobile.
- 59nadir 6y agoLet's be fair: They're moving away from OCaml because there's a ton of stuff that's impractical about using OCaml, mostly related to the very bare ecosystem tooling that's seen maybe a few years of good light and "Things every language should have by now" features that have been coming soon for 8+ years.