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203 points smartmic | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 20:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | 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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keysdev ◴[28 Jun 25 00:42 UTC] No.44401522[source]▶
OCaml is like nim, not many ppl knows about, but it is one those tech once over the learning curve it just gives developer an extra edge.

It is a very good alternative to memory safe language such as Rust and Swift. It is just NOT backed by big corporations. Which some might see it as a disadvantage, IMHO it is an advantage. Look at Perl, Linux, Hono all initially made by one guy.

With out a big group, golden handcuffs and corporate politics, things might actually gets done.

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1. anta40 ◴[28 Jun 25 17:06 UTC] No.44406293[source]▶
Nowadays, I don't think Linux is 100%, community-driven only software, considering it also has backup from big corps like Intel, IBM, Oracle, etc etc.

In the similar way, most programming language implementations used in industry (Java, C#, Go etc) also have big corps backup.

My main job is mobile app development, and OCaml definitely lacks significant menpower on this side, so if I were going to use it for my job... perhaps backend stuff? Or what?