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by mbac32768 361 days ago
lol

imagine everything that's good about Rust tooling but significantly less good or non-existent instead

(the VS Code plugin for OCaml is actually decent though)

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The VS Code plugin is, like, 90% of the developer experience of most devs. The fact that it's rock-solid in OCaml should automatically bump us up to at least a B grade. Meanwhile the dune build system is powerful and flexible, and compile times are actually blazing fast, unlike Rust's famous slow builds. So yeah, there are pros and cons on each side, I wouldn't say it's a clear win.