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by Zababa 1257 days ago
ML is still right there, and yet people are adding its features to more popular languages (recently Java). OCaml had a compiler to JS released in 2010 (js_of_ocaml), yet Typescript was still released 2 years later. Is this because of technical concerns? NIH syndrome? Lack of knowledge about absolutely everything that has been done? A need for control? Probably a bit of each, and other things too.