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Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book

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Re: Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book

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Post by mseri » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 10:36 AM UTC

non-entity wrote: post #15

G4BB3R wrote: post #7

Each year I think wether should I learn OCaml or not. What is the current state of multi-thread OCaml? Is that a game changer or just a cool feature? I can't understand why OCaml doesn't have mass adoption.

I took a brief look at OCaml and from what I've read the tooling and ecosystem has been a bit of a pain in the past. And while it may be minor, from what I understand OCaml on Windows isnt a thing without cygwin or WSL.

Windows support is the upcoming focus: https://youtu.be/E8T_4zqWmq8?t=3459

Re: Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book

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Post by codygman » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 9:02 AM UTC

choeger wrote: post #91

weeniehutjr420 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about Haskell?

Haskell is like the nerdy cousin of the ML family. Everyone knows he's smart, but no one would think to ask him to fix the kitchen sink or install the new dishwasher. Seriously, Haskell is massively impressive, both as a research language and as an implementation. But it does not shed that certain research attitude. Every known problem seems to be boring. "Oh you want a proxying http server? No problem, this is just…

> Sometimes I get the feeling that no one focuses on shipping actual software with Haskell.

With just a modicum of effort you can easily disprove this feeling.

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