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Dune is a great "window" in my experience with OCaml, it forces you to do more than with every other language but you end up with a better understanding of ever
by Zababa 4y ago
Dune is a great "window" in my experience with OCaml, it forces you to do more than with every other language but you end up with a better understanding of everything.
- pkilgore 4y agoThis is fair. It's also a reason the "masses" are going to pick up Go or Rust instead.
- Zababa 4y agoThat's how I think things will go too. I really enjoy the time I spend with OCaml but whenever I need to do something I use JS because it gives me the frustration in lower doses if that makes sense. I learn less but sometimes I don't want to learn, I want to do.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoRust has a larger ecosystem, but it's not even on the same planet as ocaml in terms of expressiveness. Kind of disappointed facebook didn't run with ocaml, instead of doing the whole Reason thing. They could have been contributing to and using ocaml directly, instead they decided that programmers will freak out if there's no curly braces.
- dunefox 4y ago> but it's not even on the same planet as ocaml in terms of expressiveness. It's also not on the same planet with tooling pain points.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoI think it is on the same planet. Maybe not wrt ecosystem, but apart from rust having a testing built into the language I find them both about the same.
- baby 4y agoI spent so much time reading the horrible documentation of Dune and I don't think I learned much about the internals of OCaml.
- Zababa 4y agoI didn't learn about the internals of OCaml either, I learned about dunea and how it works. I feel like I know it better than npm or cargo since I had to do a bit more manually.