alt Hacker News> But for whatever reason it never became that mainstream
Syntax. Syntax is the reason. It's too foreign to be picked up quickly by the mass of developers that already know a C style language. I would also argue that it's not only foreign, it's too clunky.
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zozbot234 • yesterday at 9:27 PM
ReasonML easily fixes that particular issue.
The syntax is ridiculously simple, and I can't in good conscience allow OCaml to be called clunky in a thread about a language that solved error handling with record-like interfaces and multiple return types.