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by mercurial 3875 days ago
Well, I'm not sure I would go as far as "excellent". There is no "OCAML IDE", there is vim/emacs + tools. You can hack an IDE-like workflow by way of inotify, but if you want the "works-out-the-box" experience, that's not going to happen. As you mention, debugging is lacking, and more generally Merlin can't do much in the way of refactoring.

If you're fine with, eg, hacking Python in VIM, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the OCAML situation. If you live in an integrated IDE, there will be some adaptation.