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Re:Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml by mhd on Monday November 17, 2025 @05:34AM (#45952396)
Perl? Are there existing modules for the Linux KMS interface? Otherwise this would also be an off-beat language choice, and these days with only marginally more developers… (And I say that as a Perl fan)

Personally, I'm glad that this isn't yet another Rust post ;)

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Re:Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml by mos87 on Monday November 17, 2025 @05:54AM (#45952492)
No, I haven't meant to imply that Perl should be used for the subj. But doubt it'd have proven any worse than OCaml. All depends on the programmer unsurprisingly.
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Re:Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml by ernst_klim on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:09AM (#45952577)
> But doubt it'd have proven any worse than OCaml

Unlike Perl, OCaml is AOT compiled in a very efficient machine code, has a good static type system and has a good concurrency support. Both are not very mainstream.

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