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0 pointsspooky_deep5mo ago0 comments

Horrible. Would’ve been much nicer if they’d reached for Scheme.

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You say that, but people in OCaml keep bemoaning the use of mostly declarative s-expressions in the Dune build system. Imagine the reaction if MSBuild used an actual Scheme.

jimbokun5mo ago

Why doesn't the OCaml build system use OCaml?

spooky_deepOP5mo ago

You don’t want a language with non-determinism, arbitrary IO, impure functions etc. for build configuration ideally.

I guess the answer to your question is OCaml has unmanaged side effects.

spooky_deepOP5mo ago

They don’t know how good they really have it :)

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debugnik5mo ago

You say that, but people in OCaml keep bemoaning the use of mostly declarative s-expressions in the Dune build system. Imagine the reaction if MSBuild used an actual Scheme.

jimbokun5mo ago

Why doesn't the OCaml build system use OCaml?

spooky_deepOP5mo ago

You don’t want a language with non-determinism, arbitrary IO, impure functions etc. for build configuration ideally.

I guess the answer to your question is OCaml has unmanaged side effects.

spooky_deepOP5mo ago

They don’t know how good they really have it :)

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