I have to agree so much. Been following for years, and started new experiments this week. It all worked so well.

dune init …

opam install some tools like lsp

restart vscode

dune build --watch and I’m good to go.

Edit: adding some counterpoints and issues to level the field (but are being worked on)

1. dune/opam - wish they were one thing. I can still install packages with dune, and a package lock file exists for deterministic-enough builds.

2. dune files and s-expressions are still weird to write. I wish we can move away, or at best, have a tool that helps you remember and where configs. best I have now is chatgpt instead of having to crawl dune docs

3. eio, lwt, async - 3 async runtimes, hoping that one day it’ll be easy to use an async lib with an lwt-based project via eio. The division will likely never be consolidated