A lot has been said about the absence of typeclasses in OCaml (and it’s sibling F#), but I haven’t been able to find any good resources explaining why the OCaml’s developers felt those are not needed. I did find F#'s creator’s reasoning against them here , and I assume the same line of reasoning app…

Why doesn't OCaml have typeclasses (or something similar)?

yawaramin July 15, 2025, 7:56pm 3

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