i concur with this assessment. I did the wonderful course, "Programming Languages, Part A" by The University of Washington. Part "A" of the course teaches Functional Programming and uses Standard ML as a vehicle to teach it's semantics.
I completely fell in love with the language, but I concur that the tooling is almost non-existent and the error messages that bubble up, leaves much to be desired.
I completely fell in love with the language, but I concur that the tooling is almost non-existent and the error messages that bubble up, leaves much to be desired.