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by wtetzner 1356 days ago
> However, (stable) OCaml not having multithreading support is still a gigantic limitation.

OCaml 5 still seems a lot more real and coming-sooner than the imaginary OCaml-on-Go. Sure, it's not ideal that multicore OCaml isn't yet stable, but it does exist, and will become stable.

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Absolutely - I was only replying to the question of why you may want this in principle.
My biggest concern would be that Go's runtime is likely not optimized for functional programming.