Hello, Is Ocaml hard to learn? What is the usage of this language? Is it for the Unikernel? Thank you.

[image] bltxd: As far as platform support goes, the ecosystem is great on Linux And MacOS, since it supports many of the same tools

[image] Hack3rcon: I guess the language is hard to learn or maybe hard for me!!! Is it a good language for beginners? Some good books are listed here: OCaml Books It doesn’t sound like you are a beginner at programming, but if you are, maybe OCaml from the Very Beginning would be a good sta…

How about job positions? What are you doing with Ocaml?

@Hack3rcon OCaml is popular in Finance: Bloomberg, LexiFi, SimCorp. I think these companies are well represented in this forum :wink: Check out LexiFi’s clients page: https://www.lexifi.com/clients/ I’m not speaking for LexiFi, but I think it would be fair to say that each of their clients has a n…

I think you might want to have some … skepticism about the possibility of using Ocaml at any job you might have. It’s true that there are a few companies (and even a couple of large ones) that use Ocaml heavily. But unless you intend to limit your job horizons to those companies, the world is pret…

[image] mars0i: … OCaml from the Very Beginning From what little I see about this, it sounds like it covers OCaml as distributed, not an alternate set of libraries and extensions. That sounds like a plus, a feature that unfortunately isn’t common to all the widely recommended introductory ma…

[image] mars0i: If it seems too difficult because the way of thinking seems strange, you might want to temporarily switch to an easier book on functional programming such as OCaml from the Very Beginning or (my personal favorite) The Little Schemer by Friedman and Felleisen I can only offer m…

[image] donn: I don’t know ReasonML, but I wonder if its familiar syntax is any benefit to someone struggling with the concepts. If you’re learning something somewhat radically different from what you’re used to, does it help if it’s superficially similar? I know that makes sense, and I thin…

This is (surprisingly maybe) a deep observation. I first heard it from Guy Steele in 1994 he was giving a talk on what I’ll call “syntactic backward-compatibility”.[1] He had a bunch of examples from language evolution, where back-ward compatibility (or lack thereof) was important for language ado…

I always found the syntax difference to be a strength for learning actual functional programming. If you try to learn something new and it looks too similar to something you already know it’s natural to take it for that thing and use it as such. It’s perfectly possible to simply bang imperative st…

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yawaramin July 13, 2020, 3:26pm 21

A few ReasonML books:

Web Development With ReasonML
Exploring ReasonML (free online)
Learn Type-Driven Development (co-authored by me)

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