OCaml for Fun & Profit: An Experience Report • Tim McGilchrist • YOW! 2023

[@KevinN44]

Love the talk. Well balanced views and really shows Ocaml as a valid option for many domains.

[@Xemantic]

Are any F# programmers like me here wondering if they should give OCaml a go? Or would the switch bring negligible benefits

[@Hedshodd]

Why would learning a new language mean that you have to "switch" to that language? Just learn it and use as a different tool in your toolbox. You can (and should) know and use more than language at a time

[@WalterVos]

I really feel like you should credit Scott Wlaschin if you're just going to replace F# with Ocaml in his website title to use as your talk title.

[@HaydenDoingThings]

The phrase is extremely common and has been since the late 80s/early 90s. Perhaps you should emerge from the rock you've lived under if you thought Scott was the only person to use the phrase...

[@WalterVos]

@@HaydenDoingThings I'm aware of the expression "for fun and profit" even if English isn't my native 😁. In the context of a programming language (from the ML family) (in fact F# is a descendant of OCaml) it's rather rare though.

[@HaydenDoingThings]

@@WalterVos I'd suggest you search HN for "for fun and profit" and look at the past submissions there. quite literally hundreds of programming-adjacent articles and projects with that subheading.

[@pookiepats]

L take brother, I encourage you to examine WHY you felt so entitled to make a comment like this tearing down another whom you do not know.

[@uselessandempty]

"more powerful type system than typescript" LOL, no.

[@etooamill9528]

what does typescript have that ocaml doesn't?

[@davidorbang7152]

TS doesn't even have type safety.

[@multivitamin7]

You may be trolling, but yes ocaml definitely has a more powerful type system than typescript. If you’re skeptical of this claim, you need only consider which type system is actually real and affects how the program works. Typescript is illusory.