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I used to use #OCaml quite a bit, though that was a number of years ago, and I use #Rust a lot now.

One of my main gripes about OCaml is how it wasn't very practical in some ways. There was no way to open a file read/write (very common for, say, databases), and because it lacked things like Haskel's typeclasses or Rust's traits, you'd use different functions to seek on a file opened for input vs. one for output.

Looks like it's still the same.


I posted a question to Twitter about OCaml and F#:

Is anyone familiar with both F# & OCaml? What can you tell me about the ecosystems & which one would you choose for a purely backend stack and "fullstack" stack (web and backend)? Do either ecosystems have something like Flutter that builds native apps from one codebase for all?

I wanted to cross post here in case someone isn't on Twitter any more and has something to say on the topic. Cheers. #fsharp #ocaml

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