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OCaml

A general purpose industrial-strength programming language
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What is OCaml?

It is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles. It is the technology of choice in companies where a single mistake can cost millions and speed matters,
OCaml is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.

Who uses OCaml?

Companies
42 companies reportedly use OCaml in their tech stacks, including Jane Street, Agora, and CrowdStrike.

Developers
139 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OCaml.

OCaml Integrations

Linux, Windows, macOS, YAML, and FreeBSD are some of the popular tools that integrate with OCaml. Here's a list of all 16 tools that integrate with OCaml.
Pros of OCaml
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Satisfying to write
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Pattern matching
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Also has OOP
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Very practical
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Easy syntax
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Extremely powerful type inference
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Efficient compiler

OCaml's Features

  • functional style
  • imperative style
  • object-oriented style

OCaml Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to OCaml?
Haskell
It is a general purpose language that can be used in any domain and use case, it is ideally suited for proprietary business logic and data analysis, fast prototyping and enhancing existing software environments with correct code, performance and scalability.
ReasonML
It lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.It is powerful, safe type inference means you rarely have to annotate types, but everything gets checked for you.
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
Erlang
Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.
Rust
Rust is a systems programming language that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance. It improves upon the ideas of other systems languages like C++ by providing guaranteed memory safety (no crashes, no data races) and complete control over the lifecycle of memory.
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OCaml's Followers
170 developers follow OCaml to keep up with related blogs and decisions.