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>In OCaml, a language highly suited for developing languages in, What makes OCaml suited for that?

• mjburgess 1y ago
  algebraic datatypes (tagged unions + pattern matching); compiled, garbage collected (you dont really need memory management for a compiler), statically typed with inference
  • hibikir 1y ago
    Yeah, the same reasons Scala has a built in parser combinator module in the standard library: Just easy to use with those features in the language
  • fuzztester 1y ago
    thanks.
• greggyb 1y ago
  ML, the language heritage from which OCaml derives, was explicitly designed with interpreters and compilers in mind.