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Comparatively, yes. Clojure and Haskell have adoption problems too. But I think the community is growing stronger with each passing day. That simply isn't happening with OCaml.



> "That simply isn't happening with OCaml."

Err... based on what exactly? I've been working in the OCaml community for several years now and it's going from strength to strength. Do we have different definitions of 'strength' or something?


Based on blog posts that show up, based on Google results that show when you try to find tutorials on how to get certain things done (in a production environment, that is).

Also, another thing that's peculiar with OCaml is that a lot of libraries are LGPL 3+ which makes it that much harder for corporates to adopt. And sometimes, alternatives to certain libraries are either hard to find, or are not actively maintained. It could also be that, I have been looking in all the wrong places.




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