In general I would like to say that the points @yawaramin (and others have made in a similar vein) are logical and reasonable.
But I personally don’t tend to place so much emphasis on the tooling story.
I’ve just written a blog titled “General thoughts on Ocaml & Haskell and OCaml’s (supposedly) pathetic state of tooling”. I wrote this partly in response to some of the views expressed on this thread and similar discussions that have taken place in the past.
It also summarizes some of my other views about Ocaml in general and the elephant in the room: OCaml vs Haskell. Check it out!
I’ve also opened up a new topic here: