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Comment by jimbokun

3 hours ago

Why doesn't the OCaml build system use OCaml?

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jimbokun

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spooky_deep  3 hours ago

You don’t want a language with non-determinism, arbitrary IO, impure functions etc. for build configuration ideally.

I guess the answer to your question is OCaml has unmanaged side effects.

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