Re:OCaml 4.10
by pdimitar on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:32PM
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What are the top challenges? Why is it taking so long? What exactly will multicore OCaml cover? Native OS threads? Green threads? Actors like in Erlang/Elixir?
I'm learning Rust and I'm doing so a bit begrudgingly at times. I like OCaml better but the lack of frictionless parallelism is a huge letdown. (And I don't think spawning several processes is an actual alternative, no.)
Trust me, there is some amount of programmers out there who will very quickly adopt OCaml after it gains multicore abilities. They are eagerly awaiting and watching. And I'm one of them.
I'm learning Rust and I'm doing so a bit begrudgingly at times. I like OCaml better but the lack of frictionless parallelism is a huge letdown. (And I don't think spawning several processes is an actual alternative, no.)
Trust me, there is some amount of programmers out there who will very quickly adopt OCaml after it gains multicore abilities. They are eagerly awaiting and watching. And I'm one of them.