[scarmig]

I have a very different perception of OCaml compared to you (compared to most people?)

When I think of OCaml, the concepts that come to mind are brilliant French computer scientists and hedge funds. A practical Haskell. When I think of F#, I think of... .NET, bright enterprise programmers who want to work with a tolerable language, and that's about it. If forced to name a user of it, I'd say "uhh, no idea... Maybe Stack Overflow?"

(That's entirely aside from the relative merits of both languages, which are leaps and bounds ahead of both most OOP and functional languages.)

[throw868788]

I've seen both being used by hedge funds and finance/banks actually. A lot of F# use anecdotally is closed source finance (this has changed now I think) which is why IMO it didn't have as much open source visibility or people showing its use. OcAML is probably in a similar boat. Having hidden use cases however means breaking changes in the language are harder to judge.