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A lot of projects also started on ocaml and then later moved off of it once they had succeeded by showing the concept works and got some momentum going. People
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
A lot of projects also started on ocaml and then later moved off of it once they had succeeded by showing the concept works and got some momentum going. People like it for exploratory compiler dev, then switch off it when their language can self host. IIRC both rust and elm started like this, certainly others as well.
- Skinney 4y agonitpick: Elm was and is written in Haskell.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoOh you're right. Now that I think about it elm is more stylistically similar to haskell too. Last time I used elm I had never played with haskell so I probably just assumed it was related to ocaml which I did know.
- phplovesong 4y agoYup. Rust was originally written in OCaml https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/ef75860a0a72f79f97216f8aaa5b388d98da6480/src/boot https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/ef75860a0a72f79f97216...