I extracted the replies to the free-form questions and made them available as a Gist. There are so many replies that I have no idea how to exploit and summarize them!
Build-tools.md
# OCaml build tools: What would you change?
Having a coherent OCaml toolchain distribution.
Improve cross compilation experience
Improve docs
more integration, e.g. Rust's cargo style
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Learning-pains.md
# What is a pain point when learning the OCaml language?
Lack of over-loaded numerical operators (though have mixed views on ad hoc polymorphism in general)
Double semicolon in examples, no main function
Incoherent tooling (hard to grasp opam+dune+...), missing features out of the box (no derivers, no printers, no JSON, ...)
Classes
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Libraries-missing.md
# What libraries are you missing the most?
Better numerical - though Owl is great progress
Graphical User Interface, specific hardware drivers
elastic, sentry, prometheus
libraries to embed the interpreter, argparse, unittests
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