[pdimitar]

Thank you for the constructive comment. ^_^

What you say is fair. It seems that OCaml's niche with time moved from competing with C to competing with Haskell and Rust -- at least from where I am standing. Maybe some members of the community aren't OK with that goalpost moving. That would be understandable.

But to be fair, I like OCaml more than Rust but I got very spoiled by both Elixir's and Rust's tooling -- both are excellent enablers of productivity.

Once OCaml overcomes this barrier (and introduces multicore) I am definitely going in, neck deep! :)

[sweeneyrod]

Yes, I think everyone would agree that OCaml has gone from competing with the predominant high-level language of 1996 (C) to the predominant languages of today (definitely not C).

Another factor is that creating a language (Rust, Go etc.) from scratch lets you have nice unified tooling to an extent that is probably just not possible with languages with baggage. So I doubt OCaml will ever manage to be quite as seamless as those, but IMO it's already gone from significantly worse tooling than e.g. Python/Java to significantly better, and is still improving all the time!