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Re:Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml by nestorD on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:43AM (#17828181)
Going from Ocaml to F# is trivial, most of the time it is only a matter of adjusting the indentation and getting the correct name from the std. Going from F# to Ocaml tend to be harder since F# has a number of functionalities that are often used and do not exist in Ocaml (such as parallelism, sequences, active pattern, list comprehension, type providers, etc and a much bigger std). As a user of F# on linux, the experience is good (better than Ocaml on linux) and getting better every year (some library are still windows only but it is changing).
Re:Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml by ernst_klim on Friday August 24, 2018 @07:21AM (#17834218)
>Going from F# to Ocaml tend to be harder since F# has a number of functionalities that are often used and do not exist in Ocaml (such as parallelism, sequences, active pattern, list comprehension, type providers, etc and a much bigger std)

The opposite is also true, F# does not have ppx, OCaml's object system, GADTs, polymorphic variants, functors, first class modules, extendable variants.

Re:Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml by BeetleB on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:07PM (#17829388)
Better than OCaml on Linux or Ocaml on Windows? If it's better than OCaml on Linux, that would be impressive.