What are the biggest reasons newcomers give up on OCaml?

In Error: Library "netcgi2" not found you are mixing packages from two different package managers and expecting things to work. And then you report error messages without showing proper context to help you debug them… and get confusing feedback as a result. There is nothing particular wrong about this! We all get confused with stuff, and it is easy to go in wrong directions when we are confused. But I would not draw too much conclusions from that either, I think the same can occur in the other language ecosystems you mentioned.

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