Repost- Why I chose OCaml as my primary language

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/why-ocaml.html

A good read

TOC

• Foreword
  • Other resources
• OCaml as a language
  • On static type checking
  • Features of the language
    • A multi-paradigm language
      • Syntax à la ML
      • Closely related to research
    • Algebraic types
    • Modular programming and module language
    • Dependency injection and inversion
      • Through modules
      • Through user-defined effects
  • Regarding the future
  • Weaknesses
  • To conclude on language
• OCaml as an ecosystem
  • Compilation, runtimes, and additional targets
    • A quick detour via MirageOS
  • The OCaml platform
    • OPAM, the package manager
    • Dune, the build-system
      • On the choice of S-expressions
      • Contribution to the state of the art: Selective Applicative Functor
      • Alternatives
    • LSP and Merlin for editors
      • The advent of VSCode, LSP as standard
    • Odoc, the documentation generator
  • Available libraries
    • Side note on the standard library
  • Ecosystem Conclusion
• On the community
• Some myths about OCaml
  • OCaml and F#
  • Doubled operators for floats
  • On the separation between ml and mli
    • Encapsulation without mli
    • Expressing the interface from ml
    • To conclude on separation
• Conclusion