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The black-boxiness of dune has frustrated me as well, but to its credit it does a lot of work for you. Its biggest problem might be documentation; at least the
by jasperry 2y ago
The black-boxiness of dune has frustrated me as well, but to its credit it does a lot of work for you. Its biggest problem might be documentation; at least the last time I looked at it, there were only very basic examples plus a listing of the keywords with terse descriptions.
The art of writing a reference manual that actually explains how the software works is almost lost, it seems.
- qlfa102 2y ago> The art of writing a reference manual that actually explains how the software works is almost lost, it seems. The original INRIA docs are also better than the new things on ocaml.org. Literally the only issue with the "old" INRIA pages was the poor quality of the mailing list archive, the rest is great! I want my tar archives and docs from INRIA. If I was rich, I'd pay for a grant to update the "old" documentation.