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		77pt77 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OCaml as my primary language > I feel if OCaml had got its act together around about 2010 with multicore and a few other annoyances[1] it could have been Rust That's about the time-frame where I got into OCaml so I followed this up close. The biggest hindrance in my opinion is/was boxed types. Too much overhead for low level stuff, although there was a guy from oxbridge doing GL stuff with it.

debugnik 4 months ago [–]

That's still the biggest hindrance in my opinion, at least for my use cases. OxCaml, Jane Street's fork, has some features for unboxed types and stack-based allocation of boxed types; hopefully it goes upstream.

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