EAeatonphil·May 21, 2015
I am the author of the major web frameworks for ocaml [0]. On of the nicest things about OCaml is the identical system calls. I built my entire OWebl platform by reading through C servers.
On the other hand, Rust (like Erlang) reinvents and wraps a lot of these calls in ways that are not immediately obvious. (Or at least, not AS immediately obvious as they are in OCaml.)
This is such a tremendous aid because there are nearly limitless documents and examples of the Unix API.
[0] http://github.com/eatonphil/owebl
In OCaml 4.03 will, “if all goes well”, support multicore