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I've tried a couple of times to play with Ocaml. In seem like something that should be great but it just falls short. Some of that is tooling that isn't fully baked. Another issue is the syntax. The weird split between the interface description file and the code file. The lack of a unified DB interface. The lack of proper Windows support.

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i enjoy using ocaml a lot, but the lack of a good orm and the bad windows support are indeed very painful. the tooling used to be bad, but at least under linux i'm pretty happy with it these days for my small hobby projects. it's one of those languages that i'd love to be able to use at work; i miss the type system when i'm doing c++.

Having worked with and without ORMs, I'm not sure what a "good ORM" is. On the other hand, a somewhat type-safe generic SQL query builder would be very nice to have.

the other end of the process is pretty useful too - unmarshalling raw sql results into ocaml objects or records, converting foreign keys into references, etc.

That weird split is how most languages with modules work.

In languages that don't fully parse the dependencies (which Go does), that split uncouples "the implementation needs recompiling" from "all the dependencies need recompiling."

Not all languages are C and C++.

That split doesn't forbid reading the module metada.

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