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Re:Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:58PM (#45349754)
OCaml for example,

Unix system programming in OCaml, from 1991

https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/

Re:Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust by cestith on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:01PM (#45352038)
It’s such a nice language, too. It’s too bad it doesn’t get more attention. I know someone who regularly runs a couple of utilities written in Haskell, but they’re the only Haskell code in his entire organization. It’s a shop that has C, C++, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Go in production, Java in legacy production, and has half a dozen other languages in production support situations. Haskell has not caught on there, though.

I’m aware a few companies use primarily OCaml just as a few use primarily some form of Lisp. It’s just that some of these really nice languages don’t see as much use as they could.