I Love OCaml
15 days ago
- #Programming Languages
- #OCaml
- #Functional Programming
- The author reflects on OCaml's underrated popularity despite its comprehensive features and French origins.
- Functional programming, especially Haskell, helped the author break down complex problems and improve productivity with static guarantees.
- Haskell's drawbacks include complexity, slow compile times, and hard-to-debug space leaks.
- Go offered simplicity, fast compilation, and good tooling but lacked in error handling and null checks.
- The author appreciates OCaml for its balance of simplicity and expressiveness, good documentation, and tooling.
- OCaml is seen as having good taste in design, despite some outdated features like OOP-related ones.