From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 593C77FE44 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2016 16:14:15 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:QbqqQBYqtqlG/UHcMCh9I5j/LSx+4OfEezUN459isYplN5qZpcm+bnLW6fgltlLVR4KTs6sC0LuO9fq6EjNYqb+681k6OKRWUBEEjchE1ycBO+WiTXPBEfjxciYhF95DXlI2t1uyMExSBdqsLwaK+i760zceF13FOBZvIaytQ8iJ3pzxjbr5pMWbSj4LrQL1Wal1IhSyoFeZnegtqqwmFJwMzADUqGBDYeVcyDAgD1uSmxHh+pX4p8Y7oGx48sgs/M9YUKj8Y79wDfkBVGxnYCgJ45javAPES0Oq530HUXRexgtNAg7e7wDSXJ73vzDmrOdwxG+ROsigHp4uXjH39L9DTwXiiTsOMzA+4Cfcjckj3+pgvBu9qkknkMbva4aPOa87J/uFcA== Authentication-Results: mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=sp@orbitalfox.com; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=sp@orbitalfox.com; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@portal.orbitalfox.com Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of sp@orbitalfox.com) identity=pra; client-ip=95.172.232.202; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-sender="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of sp@orbitalfox.com) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=95.172.232.202; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-sender="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@portal.orbitalfox.com) identity=helo; client-ip=95.172.232.202; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-sender="postmaster@portal.orbitalfox.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CsBAAHbnpX/8rorF9bhBS8Kx6FegIMgWYQAQEBAQEBAQFkJ4IyghsBBTo/EAsNAQoJJQ8FKCEuiBkBCbk1AQEBAQEFAQEBAQEBHAWKdYUjgkmCLwEEmROGCYg0gV6NVpAKNR+DcYl5AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0CsBAAHbnpX/8rorF9bhBS8Kx6FegIMgWYQAQEBAQEBAQFkJ4IyghsBBTo/EAsNAQoJJQ8FKCEuiBkBCbk1AQEBAQEFAQEBAQEBHAWKdYUjgkmCLwEEmROGCYg0gV6NVpAKNR+DcYl5AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,575,1459807200"; d="scan'208";a="225412930" Received: from w-202.cust-20351.ip.static.uno.uk.net (HELO portal.orbitalfox.com) ([95.172.232.202]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Jul 2016 16:14:14 +0200 Received: from Razor (unknown [213.205.253.9]) by portal.orbitalfox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3CAF6AA0059; Mon, 4 Jul 2016 14:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 15:12:55 +0100 From: sp@orbitalfox.com To: Yaron Minsky Cc: Ivan Gotovchits , Dean Thompson , caml-list , Jeremy Yallop Message-ID: <20160704141255.GA2458@Razor> References: <7785E51D-EC74-4A78-8840-D4A7C18E3C56@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] how to encourage adoption of OCaml? On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 08:13:58PM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote: > The solution that seems most plausible to me is to settle on one > implementation, and port the API of one library to run on top of the > other. There was indeed an experiment in this direction that was done > by Jeremie Dimino: > https://github.com/janestreet/lwt-async I too think that a fused approach is the best one. A library which will be backwards compatible with both ancestors to begin with and the deprecate parts of it as we move forward. -- SP