Lisp and Haskell (2015)

Re:Lisp and Haskell (2015) by sidkshatriya on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:07AM (#24717309)

> OCAML tooling is horrible

This is the old view. In 2020 OCaml tooling, if I may be brave to say so, is excellent. Check out the triumvirate of dune (build), opam (external dependencies) and ocaml-lsp (IDE smarts).

P.S. ocaml-lsp uses merlin in the backend (ignore that if you are not familiar with merlin).

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Re:Lisp and Haskell (2015) by StreamBright on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:13AM (#24719233)

I just spent 2 hours on this excellent tooling to try to upgrade a package with opam, I finally gave up after read all the Github issues and Stackoverflow, etc.

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Re:Lisp and Haskell (2015) by dunefox on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:32AM (#24719392)

I spent two evenings (3 years ago, admittedly) to get the tooling setup so that I could install libraries. I got nowhere and gave up. I'm quite interested in the language but everything else seems to be a dumpsterfire.

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Re:Lisp and Haskell (2015) by dunefox on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:32PM (#24722885)

I just tried it again, everything (m4, dune, opam, ocaml-lsp) installed just fine; then I created a simple hello world project (Quick start guide: https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick-start.html) and I could compile and run it. Oh, how things appear to have changed.

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