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> The Ocaml standard library is pretty shitty Oh come on, it's not that bad, it's just minimal. Usually I can get pretty far without having to reach for someth
by jallmann 12y ago
> The Ocaml standard library is pretty shitty
Oh come on, it's not that bad, it's just minimal. Usually I can get pretty far without having to reach for something like Batteries. That's a good thing, especially when writing reusable libraries where you don't necessarily want to pull in an entire stdlib replacement.
- tel 12y agoI'm really hoping as I've explored it more and more that the lightweight standard lib is a boon more than a weakness... but to achieve this there needs to be major force to drive useful functionality down into canonical library packages.
- amirmc 12y ago> "there needs to be major force to drive useful functionality down into canonical library packages" This tends to happen over time, as the community naturally converges on certain libraries, but it's rather opaque for a new user as to what those are. In some cases, you end up with two options and then life is a little more complicated (cf. async and lwt).