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I used to scoff to the language impurity and no operator overloading. Ocaml always felt like a beaten ML, always second in class compared to haskell. As usual,

I used to scoff to the language impurity and no operator overloading. Ocaml always felt like a beaten ML, always second in class compared to haskell. As usual, superficial views completely change when you actually start using the language. I never did anything mayor (1yr+dev) on it. I only contributed to existing projects and some small personal ones. I found it more pleasant to use compared to haskell (ghc effectively), less surprising, and and a lot more practical. Combined with a live repl, it feels very close to how I normally work with lisp. In fact, I actually find it ambivalent compared to julia for explorative work and there's a lot of interesting and recent work being pushed to opam regarding this (dataframe/sci/numerical plotting libraries). It's old, and thus less sexy/marketable.

phplovesong 4y ago
Yes! I have my vim open and a split below where i run utop. Then i can evaluate any expression with <C-c C-c> and see the result instantly in utop. I usually also run a smaller split where i run dune runtest -w, so all tests are run on each save. For a compiled language OCaml is incredibly dynamic when developing. Just like a lisp.
- bruh2 4y ago
  You may also like this discussion in the OCaml forum: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/whats-your-development-workflow/10358 https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/whats-your-development-workflow/...
nequo 4y ago
> dataframe/sci/numerical plotting libraries What libraries do you recommend for these? I would love a statically typed alternative to R.
- thangngoc89 4y ago
  Check out OWL (https://ocaml.xyz/ https://ocaml.xyz/). It's an umbrella project for anything related to data sciences in OCaml.
mattpallissard 4y ago
> It's old, and thus less sexy/marketable It's been gaining traction in the past few years. I've never dealt with it professionally, but just from my hobby stuff I've had recruiters reach out.

phplovesong 4y ago

Yes! I have my vim open and a split below where i run utop. Then i can evaluate any expression with <C-c C-c> and see the result instantly in utop. I usually also run a smaller split where i run dune runtest -w, so all tests are run on each save. For a compiled language OCaml is incredibly dynamic when developing. Just like a lisp.

bruh2 4y ago
You may also like this discussion in the OCaml forum: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/whats-your-development-workflow/10358 https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/whats-your-development-workflow/...

nequo 4y ago

> dataframe/sci/numerical plotting libraries What libraries do you recommend for these? I would love a statically typed alternative to R.

thangngoc89 4y ago
Check out OWL (https://ocaml.xyz/ https://ocaml.xyz/). It's an umbrella project for anything related to data sciences in OCaml.

mattpallissard 4y ago

> It's old, and thus less sexy/marketable It's been gaining traction in the past few years. I've never dealt with it professionally, but just from my hobby stuff I've had recruiters reach out.