Re:State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]
by jhwoodyatt on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:52PM
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Nobody really cares about programming language syntax as long as the grammar is reasonably sane and the semantics are clear. Which is the case with OCaml.
The other criticisms are the ones worth attending.
Also, nesting pattern matches is a bit ugly:
does not work, it must be: which is not a big deal but surprisingly easy to forget.Some people would also really like to write
but it has to be and those many "in"s accumulate.A bunch of these things look a lot cleaner in Haskell. Although it does it by being indentation-sensitive, which other people love hating.