OCaml’s standard library is poor and has a lot of design flaws. Which alternative do you recommend to use? JaneStreet’s core looks very nice, but as I’ve heard it is too big and not so popular.

BTW, @Yaron_Minsky , a brief aside: I’m an OCaml newcomer, and recently learned the language from RWO. I found that when I wanted to try to look at the Core documentation on the Jane Street site, I often couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Part of that was functions that have only type signatures p…

Also BTW, let me say that RWO is a great book, and made it very easy for me to get started with the language. I just find trying to learn what’s in Core somewhat frustrating given what the documentation is like. (On the other hand, the documentation of the standard library on ocaml.org is also prett…

I’m hoping you’ll find the documentation of the new release of Base to be much better in this regard. There’s none of the Std0 nonsense, for sure (and we hope to have that fixed in the Core documentation soon as well.) Thanks for the nice words about RWO. And you’re certainly not wrong that a lot o…

@perry , I’ve had similar experiences. @Yaron_Minsky , this part of what perry described is the sort of thing that I was referring to re modules: Also, if you start from https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/latest/doc/ and start clicking through to core thinking you can find Hashtbl there since …

Indeed, it would be nice to see Base come with more documentation, although one can see that some effort has already been done. As far as I’m concerned, I think the main missing part is a synthetic outline of the library (at the beginning of the main documentation page, as @dbuenzli does in his grea…

For what it’s worth, building Jane Street’s PPX’s with ocamlbuild is very easy. If you install Core, you’ll also get a “corebuild” shell script that is a simple shell wrapper around ocamlbuild that sets up all of the standard JS syntax extensions, along with some other useful settings: #!/bin/sh o…

Your post is great about stdlib and I just would like to put an other point to precise on why the core team did not lot of works about the standard library. Currently, OCaml is used by the MirageOS project. Obviously, it used in this project because we have a reliable type system, a modular system…

[image] Yaron_Minsky: For what it’s worth, building Jane Street’s PPX’s with ocamlbuild is very easy. If you install Core, you’ll also get a “corebuild” shell script that is a simple shell wrapper around ocamlbuild that sets up all of the standard JS Precisely, I work on a project that doesn’…

As a first step, I would try to use ppx_jane, and see if you can get the instructions for running inline tests that I linked to working. ppx_expect is an inline test, so that should be enough. You should be able to use ppx_expect without the other extensions pretty easily from there.

[image] grayswandyr: I don’t want to use all JS PPX’s but only ppx_expect (and I don’t know how to do this) [image] Yaron_Minsky: As a first step, I would try to use ppx_jane I wasn’t clear enough: I haven’t been able to use ppx_jane because of what I suppose are conflicts with ppx_der…

What is the preferable solution for the role of standard library?

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