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I'm surprised ocaml doesn't have more market share here. Native, fast, robust type system, GC, less special syntax than rust, less obtuse than Haskell.

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No libraries.

All the niche languages have a chicken and egg problem.

Only way around that is to be able to piggy back on C or JavaScript or Java.

Yeah, though when I say that I mean more like I'm surprised the ecosystem itself hasn't matured more. Rust and Go have both built solid ecosystems up from scratch, but it's a shame that OCaml hasn't since it's a nice middle ground between the two.

I really considered one of the BuckleScript/js_of_ocaml languages for my current frontend project, but went with Typescript for basically conservatism/conventionalism reasons. I was already taking some arguably unnecessary technical risks on that project and wasn't sure I could afford more. I agree that I really wish OCaml or something close to it was mainstream.

Sounds like a lot of people here are promoting Swift, which IIUC has some roots in OCaml. I have a mac now; maybe I'll finally give it a try.

Until recently it did not have multithreading

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