Comment by s_kilk
11 years ago
I'm not sure I buy the ecosystem argument. We've recently seem other languages come from out of nowhere, with no ecosystem, to become major languages (Golang, for example).
I don't think there's really anything stopping OCaml from being more widely adopted, except for lack of attention from trend-setters.
Well, one is sponsored by and used in production by Google, and the other is maintained by the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation.
Good point.
Go gets a lot of buzz on places like HN, but that's a long way away from being a major language.
Rob pike and company are also systems folks; the language supports the ecosystem they are building, not the other way around.