OCaml's domains

[Khady]

@shinzui

It’s mostly about stewardship of the OCaml language. I’ve joined the Rust and OCaml communities at the same time, and I’ve been blown away how different the communities are in terms of moving their respective language forward, and growing their ecosystems. I really suggest leaders in the OCaml community perusing the internal Rust discourse and subscribing to Rust weekly . Rust has a vibrant growing community. They are able to do that because some of their core team members have extensive experience building communities. Without a coordinated effort, OCaml is going to remain a fringe language used mostly by Jane Street, academics, and a few smaller companies.

We can’t magically find new leaders and founding to make those people work on improving the community. Sure it would be nice, but there is a limited number of OCaml developers, even more limited number of OCaml developers willing to give their free time. And it’s hard to compete with big communities.

Also, ocaml doesn’t have curly braces so it cannot win this battle.