I've tried OCaml a few times over the years, and I think its biggest problems are chicken/egg problems. It's impractical for "real world" use because not many

I've tried OCaml a few times over the years, and I think its biggest problems are chicken/egg problems. It's impractical for "real world" use because not many people are using it in the real world. My biggest complaints: * Poor libraries - This is getting better, but it used to be a real pain to do stuff like make an HTTP request, parse JSON or XML, or connect to a database. They definitely weren't in the stdlib, and it was even pretty hard to find good third party libraries for it. * Awkward library interfaces - Even the libraries that are included are awkward to use, like the Set and Map. * Poor documentation - There's nothing (or was nothing) like http://perldoc.perl.org/ http://perldoc.perl.org/ or http://docs.python.org/ http://docs.python.org/ And, off-hand, one language nitpick: * Poorly handled strong typing - For example '+' is used to add integers while '+.' is used to add floats. The underlying reason makes sense, but there's awkward stuff like that all over. Haskell handles it better, IMO.