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Unix support is definitely better than Windows. That said, the core language and base libraries are pretty portable. Here's one nice retrospective on a move from Python to OCaml for a program that needed portability to Windows as a fundamental concern.

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-ret...

Probably the biggest problem on Windows is that OPAM, the package manager, doesn't work there. That will come eventually, though.

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> Probably the biggest problem on Windows is that OPAM, the package manager, doesn't work there. That will come eventually, though

Wodi [1] is a reasonable choice until OPAM starts supporting Windows. It includes many of the interesting/useful libraries (including, importantly, batteries [2] and core [3])

[1] http://wodi.forge.ocamlcore.org/ [2] http://batteries.forge.ocamlcore.org/ [3] https://github.com/janestreet/core_kernel

> Probably the biggest problem on Windows is that OPAM, the package manager, doesn't work there. That will come eventually, though.

Any ETA on it? If I knew about it before buying the book, I would not have done it.

The book is great, but as it is I have better luck with F# at work.

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