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Comment by craigsmansion

I hope it never happens. Ocaml is now in that sweet spot where it's big enough for real work, but can ignore mainstream fashions and keep out the inevitable accompanying "how to program when you cannot" crowd.

The last thing Ocaml needs is mainstream attention. FB's "Reason" being a point in case: "Since I don't understand what I'm doing, can you at least make the syntax look familiar?"

Let the masses stick to writing UX-driven apps in Javascript. It's where the money is anyway, which seems to be the primary motivation for "software engineers" these days.

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