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by yodsanklai 220 days ago
> if you're building a startup and you pick OCaml, you've just cut your hiring pool by 95%. that's way more painful than learning a different way to write functions.

You can hire anyone who already understands pattern matching, closures, map/fold (these are more and more common constructs nowadays) and train them to learn OCaml. It's a simple language overall, especially if your codebase doesn't use any complicated features.