KRkrat0sprakhar·Apr 27, 2016
OCaml is a great language. I'm so glad I was forced to learn at in university. Apart from the language itself, the ecosystem surrounding it is very mature as well.
- OCamlbuild is the bee's knees. Configuring complex projects requires just one line in the Makefile
- OPAM works wonderfully. No configuration required. Everything just works.
- Merlin (https://github.com/the-lambda-church/merlin) is incredible. If you use Vim / Emacs, you owe it to yourself to set it up and have better syntax highlighting, indentation and type information right within your editor.
- Approachable online guides to get started. RWO[1] is a fantastic resource and teaches you the good parts right from the start.
- Utop (https://github.com/diml/utop) is a very modern, fully-featured REPL (almost as good as IPython)
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If you've been thinking of learning OCa
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ml, here are a few useful resources -
- Real World OCaml [RWO] - https://realworldocaml.org/
- Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language - http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/u3-ocaml/index.html
- Developing applications with OCaml - http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html
- System programming in OCaml - https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/ocamlunix.html
Lastly, if you are out of ideas on what to build with OCaml, try out these courses for some challenging programming assignments
- Functional Programming (Princeton) : http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/courses/cos326-12/info.php
- Programming Languages and Compilers (UIUC): https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs421/fa2014/