Porting some code from OCaml to Scheme, the amount of boilerplate that goes away is staggering. Of course, I am also losing a whole lot of safety and refactoring help. But this sure makes the cost visible.
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8. No more bullshit with 10000 kinds of integer and other numeric types that you constantly convert between. Just use numbers with the operations you need.
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9. The OCaml ecosystem is a disaster zone with no solution in sight except maybe embrace JaneSt as your savior, if you can tolerate their style. Gerbil Scheme has a smaller community, but people *talk to each other*, synchronize, and offer all the essentials in one place.
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Who in their right minds use reader monads in ocaml?
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What do you do? Use globals? Explicitly pass extra parameters around to each and every function, thus contaminating your lexical scopes with any state any function anywhere might need (e.g. database connection and transaction state)? Live the ascetic life to do more with less?
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