Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell

Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by hxegon on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:05PM (#14554120)

OCaml seems like the ideal language for me on the surface, but the onboarding process is... suboptimal IMO. There's a lack of good soft/hard documentation (AKA the "no, type signatures are not sufficient documentation" problem), but my biggest turn off is the multiple standard libraries. Some might see that as a plus, but when I'm just trying to get a small learning project off the ground, and I find out there's a critical library I need that's incompatible with the stdlib I'm using is a huge bummer.

Not saying these are insurmountable, unforgivable problems, just really annoying.

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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by wtetzner on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:39PM (#14591836)

I feel like the biggest thing missing from OCaml is a Cargo-like build tool (probably using OPAM under the hood for dependency management). It would also be nice if OPAM had better cross platform support. The only way I could get it working on Windows was through one of the distributions that bundled Cygwin.

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