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Personally I clicked into the "getting started" page and the examples answered more of my questions, however indirectly. "Oh, this is an ML dialect with a reada
by throwaway894345 5y ago
Personally I clicked into the "getting started" page and the examples answered more of my questions, however indirectly. "Oh, this is an ML dialect with a readable syntax (and presumably none of the OCaml baggage)! It's a bit like Rust with a GC!"
- glenda 5y agoOther than immutability by default and pattern matching I don’t see the Rust connection. Out of curiosity, what is OCaml’s baggage that you’re thinking of?
- throwaway894345 5y ago> Other than immutability by default and pattern matching I don’t see the Rust connection. They're both MLs with familiar syntaxes. > Out of curiosity, what is OCaml’s baggage that you’re thinking of? Dependencies on OCaml toolchain, standard libraries, and ecosystem (which seems like it should be a feature but in practice it just means you need to understand two languages, two toolchains, and the nuances of integrating them).