Way to deflect any possible criticism x) I've used Ocaml for many years, and the syntax is undeniably a drag. There are inconsistencies, poor choices, none of which are a dealbreaker on their own but which together impose an ever-present friction. Death by a thousand cuts if you will. One of them explicitly mentioned in the article: the match statement.
> For printing, they quote "#[derive(Debug)]" in Rust but apparently they never reached ppx_deriving in Ocaml. It's a shame because it does exactly the same thing.
How do you print a list in OCaml? There's your answer as to why it's not the same thing.
