batteries-included

Ocaml has opam, a package manager, with currently 1227 packages in it. https://opam.ocaml.org/ The standard library of ocaml is quite basic, so usually, you use either Core (https://github.com/janestreet/core) or Batteries Included (https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included) I personnally prefer Batteries because it tries to stay compatible with the standard library.

>> While most OCaml implementations have poor standard libraries > That right there should tell you something. I wouldn't use that as the main criteria to judge a language. C has a poor standard library (for a definition of "poor" relative to, say, python) and so does C++. But they are certainly useful tools in their domains. In any case, OCaml has a couple of standard library replacements/augmentations that reduce the gap a bit. (Batteries Included [1] and Jane Street's Core [2]) [1] https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included/ [2] https://github.com/janestreet/core and https://github.com/janestreet/core_kernel

The std-lib in OCaml's official release by INRIA is very basic and not enough to be used in medium/large projects, and some people would rather call it "base-lib" instead of "std-lib" . Two major libraries can be used as an alternative, i) Jane Street's Core libraries. and ii) the comunity-driven "Batteries included". Related links: Core: https://bitbucket.org/yminsky/ocaml-core/wiki/Home Batteries: https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included