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You say that, but people in OCaml keep bemoaning the use of mostly declarative s-expressions in the Dune build system. Imagine the reaction if MSBuild used an a
by debugnik 10mo ago
You say that, but people in OCaml keep bemoaning the use of mostly declarative s-expressions in the Dune build system. Imagine the reaction if MSBuild used an actual Scheme.
- spooky_deep 10mo agoThey don’t know how good they really have it :)
- jimbokun 10mo agoWhy doesn't the OCaml build system use OCaml?
- spooky_deep 10mo agoYou don’t want a language with non-determinism, arbitrary IO, impure functions etc. for build configuration ideally. I guess the answer to your question is OCaml has unmanaged side effects.