Re:The History of Standard ML [audio]
by Zababa on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:08AM
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> If a major company invested in the SML ecosystem, it would take over the programming world.
I agree. I think about this a lot, and the hard part is that you need to either have an already existing ecosystem, or to have the resources to build one. If you want to leverage an existing ecosystem, the best bet would be Go I think, as .Net already has F#, Java has Scala (they are not the same but too close and would eat each other), JS has TS, some OCaml, Purescript. The other option could be to have an easy interop with Rust, as it's becoming quite big too, and perhaps fits SML more.
I agree. I think about this a lot, and the hard part is that you need to either have an already existing ecosystem, or to have the resources to build one. If you want to leverage an existing ecosystem, the best bet would be Go I think, as .Net already has F#, Java has Scala (they are not the same but too close and would eat each other), JS has TS, some OCaml, Purescript. The other option could be to have an easy interop with Rust, as it's becoming quite big too, and perhaps fits SML more.