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by zdragnar 218 days ago
Unless you're building another JS, it'd be nice if there were other companies so heavily invested in it. There's a lot out there beyond compiler prototypes and high speed financial trades, but there's not enough talk of people using ocaml for those things.
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disgruntledphd2 218 days ago
Ocaml was (historically, at least) used by Facebook for basically all of their linter/compiler/type checker work. The hack checker was in Ocaml, as was the JS thing (flow, maybe?).

So that does seem to be a good use-case for the language.

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zdragnar 218 days ago
That was why I mentioned compilers along with HFT. Rust was originally an ocaml based compiler too.

I don't build HFTs and my compilers are just for fun. None of my day jobs have ever been a situation where the smaller ecosystem and community of ocaml was offset by anything ocaml did better than the selected options like .net, Java, go, rails, C or anything else I've touched. Heck, I've written more zig for an employer than ocaml, and that was for a toy DSL engine that we never ended up using.

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