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It's a pleasant and practical language to write, yet fairly safe. Imagine the safety of Rust but looking more like Python (or Haskell...), the concurrency of G
by dermesser 3y ago
It's a pleasant and practical language to write, yet fairly safe.
Imagine the safety of Rust but looking more like Python (or Haskell...), the concurrency of Go (since V5), and without a borrow checker (but a GC instead).
- davidmurdoch 3y agoI watch some intro to OCAML videos, got excited about the languages features, then tried reading some real OCAML (Tezos, which was touted as the star of idiomatic OCAML projects - can't find the site that listed it now), and I found it so incredibly dense, hard to read, and almost completely devoid of meaningful naming and comments. It felt similar to reverse-engineering minified code to me.
- whateveracct 3y agosounds like unfamiliarity. OCaml isn't a language a layman can read without prerequisites.
- davidmurdoch 3y agoI found the idea pleasant, but not in actuality. So maybe it's an acquired taste? Haha
- whateveracct 3y agooh it definitely is. A lot of Haskell can look like you describe, but it's perfectly legible if you have enough reps under your belt. I find normal languages hard to read nowadays.