What are the biggest reasons newcomers give up on OCaml?

[Jacek_Podkanski]

@RChG

and I read several of your posts/questions and actually I think that here all people were trying to help you. Honestly, my experience is that people try to understand the difficulties of beginners. Beginners also have to make the effort to calmly explain their difficulties.

Well, then I must admit that I have those limitations as well. So I will ask calmly.

Why did it take me more than a month to sift through the difficult documentation and create example like ncforeign?

Why in other languages it would take me a day?

Why documentation in other languages has links to example repositories?

Example applications

Why examples in OCaml libraries have different dune file and a noob can not translate those to a dune file that would be the result of editing dune file initialised with init?

What about project specific .ocamlinit or other ways of defining required libraries? How answering that is complicated by my lack of understanding of dune?

I hope my questions are reasonable.

PS.
Hope that will be the answer to my frustrations

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