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Well, a big decision point is what one uses as main development platform.

Sadly OCaml support on Windows is not great, to put it nicely.

On the other hand, it may be possible to use F# on Linux with .NET Core now.

Tooling is definitely far from mature. It's treated as a second class language in .NET, and on top Linux is treated a second class OS.

I just tried to start a project with F# and ended up abandoning, and am looking into Rust right now. I considered OCaml but its lack of multicore support and the ecosystem situation made me drop it.

You are kind of right.

My point was that even as second class citizen on .NET, F# has more tooling and available libraries than OCaml ever will on Windows.

For a long time OPAM did not support Windows, and right now cygwin or Linux subsystem still seem to be better ways than straight Win32 application support.

OCaml is quite nice on *NIX systems, on other kind of OSes not so much.

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