[HN Gopher] Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml
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       Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml
        
       Author : ibobev
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2025-11-16 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | dlcarrier wrote:
       | Is OCaml an especially comfortable environment to work in?
       | 
       | One of my favorite programs, an ncurses-based RPN calculator
       | called Orpie, is written in OCaml, but I've never messed around
       | with it.
        
         | Crespyl wrote:
         | Hey, I've also used and loved Orpie!
         | 
         | I'm not extremely familiar with any of the ML family, but Eric
         | Lippert had a blog series I followed for a while in which he
         | was writing a Z-Machine in OCaml:
         | https://ericlippert.com/2016/02/01/west-of-house/ I followed
         | along but in Rust for a while, though I think he paused the
         | project at some point and I lost steam.
         | 
         | I learned more about Rust (which, IIRC was first implemented
         | _in_ OCaml) than I did about OCaml, but it 's always seemed
         | like a nice language.
        
         | Yoric wrote:
         | Well, many of the benefits of Rust, but in a simpler and
         | garbage-collected language. Possibly the best language
         | (alongside Haskell) if you need pattern-matching. Not quite as
         | good if you need lots of libraries or interaction with other
         | languages.
        
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