Considering OCaml strength especially in Compiler and code generation, one would expect it to have excellent developer tooling and be at the frontier when it comes to cross-compilation but we see younger languages like Zig offering more on that front while also having low resources (not sponsored by…

[image] flamingo: I’m looking for technical or historical context. I think it would be fair to say that the available resources are applied to those aspects which are considered to be most relevant at a point in time. Cross-compilation for OCaml, while nice to have, is not a priority (the req…

Why younger amateur languages seem to offer better tooling?

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Why younger amateur languages seem to offer better tooling?

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