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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11. Of course, typed functional programmers like to boast at how good typed fp is at writing compilers and making everything composable, but their metaprogramming tools utterly suck and are completely non-composable. Liars, hypocrites or just morons?
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12. Sure, OCaml has a super fast compiler, whereas Gerbil Scheme's is dog slow (it calls GCC). But guess what? With Gerbil I can do all that work incrementally at the REPL without having to recompile from scratch every time because a type has changed, thus losing all debug state.
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