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What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages? (self.programming)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

  • C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
  • Small standard library
  • No generic print function
  • Hard to use external libraries
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is Printf.printf not a good generic print function? It's even variadic!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.