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by c-cube 653 days ago
OCaml might be built with makefiles, but it's also not an easy path at all. Adding a module to the compiler or stdlib is really not straightforward compared to what it'd be with dune (you have to list your new file somewhere, regenerate dependencies, order matters in obscure ways, etc.). To be clear, OCaml is a special project since it also has to solve bootstrapping issues, but still, it's not an argument for "makefiles just work". Dune works extremely well for pure OCaml projects.