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by kxyvr 3924 days ago
My problem with OPAM is that there's no Windows port, which makes developing OCaml programs on Windows difficult at best. In theory, we can compile all of the dependencies by hand, but in practice, the Oasis build scripts refuse to work on Windows for most packages that I've tried.

Personally, I would love to use OCaml for my company's projects, but the lack of true cross platform tooling makes it impossible at the moment.

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That's a fair criticism. I think there is also an ongoing effort to make OPAM work on Windows, so this may get better in the future.