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by tyoverby 3198 days ago
OCaml has an incredible optimizer, and many of the abstractions that one would use in OCaml are transparent to the optimizer.

You could say the opposite about Go.

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Kinda makes me wonder why OCaml didn't become more popular for Unix systems programming, the way Go seems to be becoming now. Looking at the two languages, it seems like pretty much everything that Go has to offer in that department, OCaml has as well - and if it also optimizes better, why is this even a contest?