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0 pointsArcsech10y ago0 comments

I'm mostly only experienced with F#, but it has a few features that OCaml doesn't (type providers, units of measure, computation expressions) and is missing a few that OCaml has (functors). F# has a bit of a cleaner syntax in some ways IMO[0], but that's offset by .NET interop - the standard libraries are pretty much all borrowed from C#, and therefore tend to be more OO-first than functional-first.

Also, because it runs on .NET/Mono, you can do multicore stuff in F# very easily, whereas OCaml's multicore support is very immature (and actually not present at all until the next release, 4.03).

[0] See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233199.aspx The "verbose" syntax is almost exactly OCaml, the "Lightweight" syntax is what's commonly used in F#.

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0 pointsArcsech10y ago0 comments

Also, because it runs on .NET/Mono, you can do multicore stuff in F# very easily, whereas OCaml's multicore support is very immature (and actually not present at all until the next release, 4.03).

[0] See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233199.aspx The "verbose" syntax is almost exactly OCaml, the "Lightweight" syntax is what's commonly used in F#.