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by grdvnl
2746 days ago
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Can you eloborate on what kind of projects you work on which has made the move easy from Python to OCaml. While I love OCaml I have not heard positive things about the library eco-system in terms of variety and maintenance. Perhaps, you could throw some light on that based on your experience, especially after giving up the eco-system Python provides you. This is a sincere question and would love to find good excuses to adopt OCaml as my primary language of choice. |
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OCaml has quite a neat ecosystem, though. Especially in terms of quality. There are a few major and a bulk of minor groups that write libraries for different purposes, such as:
* MirageOS -- people behind a bunch of a high quality system libraries, there are tls (in pure ocaml) and various cryptography primitives, filesystem drivers, tar, zlib, full tcpip stack, http server, git (in pure ocaml, not a mere binding), irmin (a git-based key-store database with concurrent access), dns and some other [1].
* Ocsigen -- webdevs, authors of Lwt (monadic concurrency library), js_of_ocaml (ocaml to js compiler) and related stuff [2]
* Jane Street, Facebook, blumberg -- reason syntax, bucklescript (alternative npm-ecosystem-frienly javascript compiler), various libraries for serialization, containers etc.
* Others
Opam [3] has quite a comprehensive set of libraries pretty for every purpose: data serialization, interaction with other langs (python, R, beam Erlang/Elixir), servers, db bindings, stuff for system or web programming. Some stuff is absent, but it's definitely not a scorched field, and most of the time the benefits worth writing an absent binding or two.
[1] https://github.com/mirage
[2] https://github.com/ocsigen
[3] https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/index-popularity.html