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Re:I Love OCaml by wrenky on Friday November 07, 2025 @12:16PM (#45848599)
> Our hope is that these extensions can over time be contributed to upstream OCaml.

Yeah, its more just extensions to support their use cases at scale. Think of it more as bleeding edge ocmal, once they work out kinks/concerns they'll get merged back into the language OR if it remains ultra specific it'll stay in oxcaml.

Not a complete own version lol

Re:I Love OCaml by ng12 on Friday November 07, 2025 @12:24PM (#45848675)
Yes but the context of the thread is OCaml being "almost there". Having to build this stuff in-house is pretty good evidence.
Re:I Love OCaml by throw-qqqqq on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:03PM (#45849079)
I don’t know about that.

Python gets forked in other investment banks as well. I wouldn’t say that is evidence of any deficiencies, rather they just want to deal with their own idiosyncrasies.

See https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html

Re:I Love OCaml by StopDisinfo910 on Friday November 07, 2025 @12:37PM (#45848810)
Evidence of what?

The main user has been writing extensions to the compiler that they test before pushing for integration like they have done for the past twenty years or so. They publish these versions since last year.

Hardly a failure and certainly not something mandatory to keep things from failing over. Your initial comment is extremely disingenuous.

Re:I Love OCaml by abathologist on Friday November 07, 2025 @05:08PM (#45851731)
A different perspective is that JS has made practical application of PLT part of their secret sauce, and deepening into their PLT roots is thickening the sauce.