Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust

Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:43AM (#39616449)

I actually preferred SML/NJ when I played with writing it, but OCaml "won" in the popularity contest. Some of the things that made OCaml "better" (objects, etc.) haven't aged well, either.

Still with OCaml finally supporting multicore and still getting active interest, I often ponder going back and starting a project in it someday. I really like what I see with MirageOS.

These days I just work in Rust and it's Ok.

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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by sanderjd on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:21PM (#39621648)

Yep, right there with you. OCaml was only ever better in my view because it had developed enough libraries to be an actual pragmatic choice, unlike the other languages in that family. And yep, Rust is perfectly good too, IMO, but I do find that I rarely-to-never actually care about all the zero-cost abstractions that make it "hard" to use.

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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by int_19h on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:10PM (#39622356)

OCaml's object system is very nice, though. Structural typing with full inference is pretty awesome, and it also cleanly decouples subtyping from implementation inheritance.

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