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Yes, in every ML/OCaml tutorial, sooner or later the words object, class, and type inference appear and that’s when a once–minimalist language turns into an academic Frankenstein.
Yes, in every ML/OCaml tutorial, sooner or later the words object, class, and type inference appear and that’s when a once–minimalist language turns into an academic Frankenstein.
I'd like to hear some practical reasons for preferring OCaml over F#. [Hoping I don't get a lot about MS & .NET which are valid concerns but not what I'm curious about.] I want to know more about day to day usage pros/cons.
OCaml has been one of those "almost there" languages since at least 2002. Most of the worthwhile ideas in OCaml will be absorbed into more popular languages by the time existing friction is sorted out. :/
Almost there, but in the meantime supporting a casual squillion dollars of trades at JS
I've dabbled in F# (and aside from the rough setup with little coherent information at the time) had a pretty good time. Actor-based concurrency was easy to grok. The one gotcha was whenever those mutable Arrays entered the picture. I'd like to hear some practical reasons for preferring OCaml over F#. [Hoping I don't get a lot about MS & .NET which are valid concerns but not what I'm curious about.] I want to know mo…
Bigger native ecosystem. C#/.net integration is a double edged sword: a lot of libraries, but the libraries are not written in canonical F#.
A lot of language features F# misses, like effect handlers, modules, GADTs etc.
To this day, whenever I see Machine Learning abbreviated, my heart skips a beat, then I become crestfallen as I realize I'm not about to read something about Meta Language.
For something a bit more modern but still related to OCaml, one can try F#.
F# is a practical choice but the language features are quite far behind OCaml now. {Ecosystem, Functors} - choose 1
F# is not stagnant thankfully, it gets updates with each new version of dotnet (though I haven't checked what is coming with dotnet 10), but I don't recall anything on the level of the above Ocaml changes in years.