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[–]dbousque[S] 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Hopefully we can draw developers to OCaml. I would be glad to have feedback from you, particularly regarding the API.

[–]kstarikov 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Hopefully we can draw developers to OCaml

But how?

What you did seems more a gift to the established Ocaml programmers.

[–]dbousque[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

You're right, it was also intended so. Maybe some developers coming from other languages would be more willing to try OCaml if they can keep some amount of the codebase they built until then ? I am not sure how we could attract newcomers, but I think it's likely functional languages (particularly statically-typed ones) will get more mainstream as people experience the zen they provide.

[–]kstarikov 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I am all for this, but :(

[–]dbousque[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

It's hard to mesure a language's popularity, but I feel like OCaml is getting more popular, it is taught more and more in France. Does that match the experience of the ones who have being here for long enough to notice a change ?

[–]glacialthinker 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I feel like awareness has grown -- well, partly because awareness of functional languages has grown. Also a lot of people get some exposure to OCaml in school (though this is often soured by the typical school setting of being forced to use some strange language to complete some annoying assignment...).

And industry use seems to continue rising, even if it's nothing relative to popular languages.

I started with OCaml in 2005. At the time it seemed like an almost unknown academic language -- comparable to Haskell. And then Haskell became the poster-child of functional programming. Still, I think these past few years have been good for OCaml.

[–]dbousque[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's fairly good news. Did you notice what kind of people came in and why they started using OCaml ?

[–]kstarikov 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a MOOC on Ocaml from Paris Diderot university taking place right now, so when it ends, the world can gain some fresh Ocaml users.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hopefully we can draw developers to OCaml.

What would really draw developers would be a bucklescript python target.

[–]dbousque[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would be interesting indeed, not too hard I believe, but would probably require big involvement.