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It's close. Perhaps there's an interesting conversation to be had about why OCaml hasn't taken over the world the way Rust has.

The toolchain might be a first candidate. Rust's toolchain feels so very modern, and OCaml's gives me flashbacks to late nights trying to get my homework done on the department's HP-UX server back in college.






Can I interest you in some Moonbit?

https://www.moonbitlang.com/blog/first-announce


With any new language, the first question one has to ask is, "what are the guarantees that it'll still be around in 5 years?".

Always true, but they've made a remarkable amount of progress since the language was announced, and have some experienced people leading the project.

For paid work, sure. But if it's for hobbies or even side hustles then I don't see any harm in prioritizing fun.



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