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203 points smartmic | 2 comments | 27 Jun 25 20:36 UTC | HN request time: 1.057s | source
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luxurytent ◴[27 Jun 25 23:29 UTC] No.44401227[source]▶
If I learned OCaml, what type of prospects would I have?

Fairly seasoned generalist, mostly writing Go these days. Lots of plumbing with LLMs etc.

Would love to learn something new but am driven by a goal in mind (ie OCaml exposes me to "X industry")

Is that a thing?

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Rendello ◴[27 Jun 25 23:52 UTC] No.44401337[source]▶
The trading firm Jane Street is the big OCaml shop, they have a great podcast about all their tech. Each episode is someone from a team talking about the tool they've built, and their whole ecosystem is pretty much bespoke OCaml tooling.

- https://signalsandthreads.com/

(It's one of three programming podcasts I consistently listen to these days, the others being On The Metal and Developer Voices.)

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xedrac ◴[28 Jun 25 02:31 UTC] No.44401959[source]▶
Bespoke tooling makes me think that the standard tooling is lacking. How does it compare to Rust's tooling?
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1. no_wizard ◴[28 Jun 25 13:50 UTC] No.44404692[source]▶
The article isn’t a very technical one. I’d wager when they say tooling they mean any in house program they use as a tool, as opposed to what we as programmers would think of, like compilers, dev tools etc.

Ocaml has a pretty robust ecosystem of good dev tools and build tools.

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2. Rendello ◴[28 Jun 25 21:04 UTC] No.44408198[source]▶
If you're talking about me (GP), I meant that Jane Street has built an entire ecosystem around OCaml, from their customer-facing and backend software to traditional OCaml tooling (like build systems). That being said, all I know is from the podcast I linked. I haven't touched OCaml (yet?) myself.