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But still no Windows support for OPAM, right? sigh

That's one of the things that Rust absolutely got right, helping its adoption tremendously.

It's being very actively worked on. No solid ETA yet but I would expect the coming version or the one after to work out of the box.

You could turn that sigh into a PR. You want it, then make it happen, this is open source after all.

Here is something that might help in the mean time, https://www.typerex.org/ocpwin.html.

That's a stupid reply. I don't question the right of the Ocaml/OPIE developers to ignore platforms they don't like and use. I question the wisdom in doing so.

Asking people who aren't invested in the slightest in your language so far to start hacking on your tooling before they can try and learn your language is an interesting onboarding strategy.

No one has a vested interest in your interests other than you.

Counterexample: the Rust team.

I'll leave it at that. You're simply not reasonable.

That is a fairly bad counter example, considering that Rust is primarily backed by Mozilla with the view to use in Firefox which pretty much requires Windows support to be worthwhile.

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