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Re:Koto Programming Language by raphinou on Saturday March 29, 2025 @11:21AM (#43516239)
Fsharp, which originally was ocaml on dotnet, can also be run as scripts. It is a really practical way to start a project. I blogged about it here: https://asfaload.com/blog/fsharp-fsx-starting-point/
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Re:Koto Programming Language by soulbadguy on Saturday March 29, 2025 @04:50PM (#43518629)
Fsharp is such a nice languange. Such a shame that I never seem to get the light it deserves. Between the alternative light syntax, type providers and first class "scripting" mode supported it really was a great middle point between fully scripting language and fast prototyping and full blow projects
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Re:Koto Programming Language by int_19h on Sunday March 30, 2025 @12:06AM (#43521243)
F# was never really "OCaml on .NET", though, not really. ML on .NET, sure, but it is (and always has been) missing OCaml's most interesting features, such as functors and OO with inferred row-types.
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Re:Koto Programming Language by raphinou on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:57AM (#43523156)
It probably was too much of a shortcut, thanks for the correction.
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Re:Koto Programming Language by int_19h on Monday March 31, 2025 @03:24AM (#43532150)
They have kinda positioned themselves that way and had (have?) syntactic compatibility with a subset of OCaml. And OCaml is probably the least obscure of the ML language family, so it's not exactly surprising.
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