I think your comment is the most accurate depiction of the warts. Yeah, the standard library is inconsistent, and they don't seem keen to merge in some feature

I think your comment is the most accurate depiction of the warts. Yeah, the standard library is inconsistent, and they don't seem keen to merge in some features when they're readily available in other libraries. Plus there are some odd implementation details in the Unix module (for example, read/write and friends) at the C level that don't seem to get much traction on fixing despite fairly clear paths to resolution. I personally don't care about the difference between binding something to a variable and the infix operator. What I don't like are the multiple concurrency stories, this is similar to the problem seen with the standard library vs janestreet's. Although with the module system being what it is it's usually not too big a deal to support either concurrency library (even though some libraries force you to use one or the other). Although I'm hopeful that with multicore finally being a real thing, the community will settle on a single concurrency library that can be pulled into the standard library in the future. Despite the issues, it is still my favorite language.