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Not necessarily. E.g. SML has had multicore since forever. In OCaml it’s the hot new thing now, which probably needs some time in the wild before everything is

• cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Ok that's interesting, I hadn't realized the multicore story there was better. Back when I was more into looking at this kind of thing (uh, 20 years ago?) I wrote a few simple programs in SML/NJ and far preferred its syntax to OCaml. But even back then, OCaml had more dev community momentum. (Actually Haskell seemed to have even more momentum but I never ever found it readable or comprehensible as a mere mortal.) At the time for what I was doing, I really wanted... SML but without a garbage collector, operating for systems level programming. And so I was excited when Graydon Hoare started what became Rust. Which is what I prefer to work in these days. Still, if I wanted a language for higher level development, I really would prefer to reach for something in the ML family of languages, they are just very expressive. But I wouldn't do this for paid employment work, too esoteric. Maybe that will change a bit now that Rust has brought some concepts and syntax from ML to the mainstream.
• le-mark 3y ago
  > Not necessarily. E.g. SML has had multicore since forever. Can anyone say which implementation specifically?
  • cyberbanjo 3y ago
    PolyMl is one https://polyml.org/ https://polyml.org/