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Sorry to nitpick, but for a good Bayesian, absence if evidence is evidence of absence. If you want the aphorism to be technically correct, you should say "absence of proof is not p…

Thanks for the reply. I hope that the array and list comprehensions land soon in upstream; it's a useful and hopefully not-too-controversial feature. I'm more ambivalent regarding …

Thanks for the reply. I'm hoping that modular macros land soon. I'm very ambivalent about the PPX mechanism, and I hope that modular macros reduces the need of PPX.

Are the plans for typed algebraic effects solidifying, or are they still nebulous? Concretely, are you willing to take a guess as to when we are expected to see OCaml 6? ;-)

Congratulations and a big thank you to the OCaml team! I hope that multicore support finally ticks all the requirement boxes that had prevented many from taking a serious look at O…

I have to interject here for the sake of those unfamiliar with OCaml and who may take the parent comment at face value. Saying "it has quirks like using ;; to end statements" is mi…

> Conversely OCaml is an interpreted functional language. Correction: OCaml is not an interpreted language. OCaml programmes are compiled down to native code (or bytecode, or Javas…

Quite on the contrary: The OO part of OCaml is hardly used at all in the wild!

Indeed. Considering the volume of transactions going to and from Coinbase, their adoption of Segwit would go a long way towards alleviating the current mempool situation, which wou…

As others have pointed out, your understanding is backwards. Mining is heavily centralised already (in China of all places!), and larger block sizes would only exacerbate the minin…

> Segwit isn't a a block size increase. It allows for a tiny amount more transactions but it's very clear it's not enough. An actual block size increase (say to 8MB) would solve th…

What about pandemics? (Either natural or engineered.)

> It's a pyramid scheme in a sense that you depend on others to keep buying the bitcoin. Please don't use the expression "pyramid scheme" lightly, because there are actual pyramid …

OCaml has great support for concurrency (check out Lwt or Async libraries). Do you mean parallelism, perhaps?

And yet the Pentium G4560 -- one of the cheaper models of their Kaby Lake lineup -- supports both ECC and non-ECC RAM. I suspect the only reason behind lack of ECC support on their…

There was a recent thread on a sub-Reddit about using the threat of the Kessler Syndrome as deterrence: https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/62n21j/wha...

In the case of OCaml, the structural subtyping of object fields can never cause a crash, because it is verified at compile-time.

I think the confusion in this discussion lies in different interpretations of the word "Ponzi". You're using an interpretation that defines as Ponzi any investment where the value …

The article lacks a crucial bit of context: particularly in the North and Center of Portugal, the last 8 months have been even rainier than usual (many areas already over 2000mm of…

> IF the observed expansion of the universe is indeed due to dark matter as we think of it, and The accelerating expansion of the universe is thought to be caused by dark energy , …

That impression is incorrect. I don't think the core devs and the overall community have ever been as vibrant as they are now. Take for instance compiler development: half a decade…

Would you care to share an example? I've never encountered a justifiable need to write ;; outside the REPL. The only uses of ;; I've encountered "in the wild" were hardly reasonabl…

> (...) I think it's clearly dying out at this point. You seem pretty adamant -- what makes you think that? I think it's quite the opposite: the language and the community never fe…

You should take a new/better look at OCaml, as most of the information you mentioned is wrong and/or out-of-date. For instance: * F# is not a superset of OCaml. OCaml has a number …