Learning OCaml in 2023

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Post by djcollier » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 5:48 AM UTC

Learning OCaml in 2023
sancho.dev

Re: Learning OCaml in 2023

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Post by zamalek » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 6:40 PM UTC

This is exactly what I've been looking for! I really want to get into ML (thanks to that Rust gateway drug), and I found the whole ecosystem pretty confusing.

Re: Learning OCaml in 2023

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Post by davesnx » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #2

This is exactly what I've been looking for! I really want to get into ML (thanks to that Rust gateway drug), and I found the whole ecosystem pretty confusing.

Hey, thanks! This tries to solve exactly that, let me know if there's anything else that feels that needs an intro to OCaml community.

Re: Learning OCaml in 2023

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Post by Alifatisk » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 12:44 PM UTC

Is Meta still actively using it?

Re: Learning OCaml in 2023

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Post by zem » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 10:16 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #4

Is Meta still actively using it?

one of their employees could doubtless say more, but at the very least I'm familiar with the actively developed https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check

Re: Learning OCaml in 2023

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Post by xedrac » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 8:52 AM UTC

I've been holding out OCaml because it didn't have good concurrency support, but that seems to have changed recently. I've thoroughly enjoyed learning Haskell, and I'm sure ML has a few treasures of its own to give.

Re: Learning OCaml in 2023

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Post by yawaramin » Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 2:54 AM UTC

xedrac wrote: post #6

I've been holding out OCaml because it didn't have good concurrency support, but that seems to have changed recently. I've thoroughly enjoyed learning Haskell, and I'm sure ML has a few treasures of its own to give.

OCaml has had great concurrency support for quite a long time, the Lwt promises library offers async I/O and works really well. Now, with OCaml 5 shipping Multicore support, even more performance will be unlocked, potentially (it really depends on the design and workload characteristics of the application).