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Re:Four Years of Rust by xvilka on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:00PM (#19921409)
Modern OCaml (4.06+) is not that bad, but yeah, lack of proper parallelism and bad Windows support (without hacks like MinGW or Cygwin) is what still hurts. Standard library these days is only one - Base, one buildsystem - Dune, Camlp4 is dead, and compiler improved a lot recently (including speed if you enable flambda).
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Re:Four Years of Rust by p0nce on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:54PM (#19923675)
You guys are welcome to D, you may enjoy unboxed floats, guaranteed monomorphization and native threads. Also, 3 backends.
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Re:Four Years of Rust by wyatwerp on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:24PM (#19925072)
The reference compiler is as free-standing as OCaml's because it too has its own back-end. Its front-end is shared with the other 2 back-ends: feeds the ubiquitous LLVM in LDC, and is included as a supported front-end in GCC since version 9.1.

Anyway, there is no way you'd give up ML-tradition pattern-matching; D doesn't have it.

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Re:Four Years of Rust by p0nce on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:08AM (#19927615)
Well engineering decision are tradeoffs, using D i've never missed pattern-matching and I have used ocaml before.
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