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Re:Two Years of OCaml by rwmj on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:29AM (#35785956)
As a user of OCaml I have to disagree. Rust requires far too many type annotations and they are mostly unnecessary and clutter everything up (particularly with it's very heavy syntax). In OCaml my editor shows me types if I mouse over a variable, and if I need to document the code I can do that, but I don't need to.
Re:Two Years of OCaml by IshKebab on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:01AM (#35799419)
My point is it isn't very useful if half the types are 'a