[keysdev]

OCaml is like nim, not many ppl knows about, but it is one those tech once over the learning curve it just gives developer an extra edge.

It is a very good alternative to memory safe language such as Rust and Swift. It is just NOT backed by big corporations. Which some might see it as a disadvantage, IMHO it is an advantage. Look at Perl, Linux, Hono all initially made by one guy.

With out a big group, golden handcuffs and corporate politics, things might actually gets done.

[sealeck]

Lots of cool stuff does seep out of Jane Street, though. See for example https://oxcaml.org/ as probably the most recent very public example

[anta40]

Nowadays, I don't think Linux is 100%, community-driven only software, considering it also has backup from big corps like Intel, IBM, Oracle, etc etc.

In the similar way, most programming language implementations used in industry (Java, C#, Go etc) also have big corps backup.

My main job is mobile app development, and OCaml definitely lacks significant menpower on this side, so if I were going to use it for my job... perhaps backend stuff? Or what?