I don't find it particularly weird or obscure either. I've had to speak over the FFI a handful of times and it was honestly a better experience than go's story

I don't find it particularly weird or obscure either. I've had to speak over the FFI a handful of times and it was honestly a better experience than go's story (which also wasn't terrible IMO). But I also recognize that I have a high pain tolerance for build systems. I will conceed though, the Tarides folks know their shit when it comes to OCaml projects.