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Re:Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:27PM (#25114371)
> Treating unicode as something optional was fine for early 2000s, but it's really not fine today.

The issues are:

* how unicode support is implemented in third party libraries: how easy it turns out to manipulate this datatype with those libraries

* how easy it is to integrate third party libraries in a project

OCaml went a long way in both accounts since the early 2000s, perhaps you should give it a second look?

Re:Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:13PM (#25114177)
> looking at OCaml it just felt horrible

care to elaborate?

Re:PinePhone – KDE Community edition on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:41PM (#25103011)
It's clear that closed source device makers will never want to prove that there are no HW backdoor, or even monitoring chip in their products, but for a device like this one, is there a will to provide such guarantee?