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Re:Leaving OCaml by nine_k on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:54PM (#24975581)
But leaving OCaml for F# is a bit like leaving Scheme for Common Lisp. Most of the underlying ideas are largely the same.

Moving from OCaml to C++ or Go would be a drastic and surprising change, but it's not nearly like that.

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Re:Leaving OCaml by Gene_Parmesan on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:12PM (#24975688)
Not really sure that's a close comparison. From a language semantics perspective, yes, OCaml and F# are very similar. But F# has access to all of .NET, so you aren't going to be at a loss for libraries -- which is probably the biggest challenge in using OCaml in production, as discussed in the OP.
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Re:Leaving OCaml by noncoml on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:07PM (#24975935)
Isn’t it more like leaving Scheme for Clojure?
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Re:Leaving OCaml by linfocito on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:58PM (#24975901)
It's (way) more like leaving Scheme for Clojure.
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