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Thanks, I'll download it, but it's really disruptive to switch IDE. (I do a lot of langages at the same time hence the jetbrains suscription)

edit: it's a nightmare of dependency hell to install merlin, I'm giving up for now.

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What package manager? `opam install merlin` should just work.

OCaml has a relatively immature ecosystem, but merlin is a great tool.

It doesn't just work for me, no detailed error message I'm 3 or 4 levels down (vscode->plugin->homebrew->opam->jbuilder-> doesn't work).

https://gist.github.com/nraynaud/deeacbb67c88646fd6754edba6e...

Sorry, I'm a bit abrasive, but I spend a lot of time with crappy tooling of all kind, sometimes I'm envious of monoproject people (and then I remember that actually I don't do well in monotony).

I think `opam` failed to find `jbuilder` on the `$PATH`, even though (presumably) `opam` has built it and installed it in it's own `bin/` directory. Try running `eval $(opam config env)` to update the `$PATH` and trying the commands again.

It looks like out output some logfiles. Anything in them? Apologies, at any rate, for being wrong about it just working.

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