Re:Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml
by yawaramin on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:54PM
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Just gonna add another little example here: https://twitter.com/yawaramin/status/1284976603454492674
> OCaml is at the heart of cloud computing infra. Every time you spin up an EC2 instance–its hypervisor runs OCaml code.
It's both trivial and well documented. There is an installation page and a tutorial on the Reason website. The installation in itself is one npm command.
> For another example, you altogether dodged the issues associated with multiple "standard" libraries.
There is only one standard library. It's the one shipped with the compiler. It is also significantly more battery included now than it used to be.
> It would be great if the OCaml community were as committed to making their language useful for production applications as they were on convincing everyone else that it already was.
The OCaml community as a whole is one of the least vocal on the internet. It does very little outreach. I never see any of the people I consider relevant to the community on HN for example.
No one cares about convincing you that OCaml is ready for production use. It doesn't need to be argued, it can just be shown. OCaml is not an up and coming language, it's a 25 years old one. It powers a lot of Jane Street infrastructure. It is used to develop Coq and Frama-C. It is transpiled to javascript at Facebook and Bloomberg. Heck, Rust which you apparently hold dear was originally written in it.