Next priority for OCaml?

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The debugger question has already been discussed many times in this forum. My personal understanding is that:

  1. the dev team is not opposed to improving debugger support;
  2. doing this is not trivial;
  3. any patch in this direction that hopes to be upsteamed should be reasonable (as in not needing a wholesale refactoring of the compiler);
  4. there isn’t much interest in the dev team itself to work on this at the moment;
  5. it seems there aren’t many community members with the right skills interested in working on this;
  6. beginners seem to be more interested in this than experienced users;
  7. resucitating ocamlearlybird may be a more realistic short-term target than better source-level debugging with gdb. On that note, it seems that work has picked up again on this project judging by the commit log.

Cheers,
Nicolas

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