Re: [Caml-list] Question about Lwt/Async

[Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>]

On 03/07/2016 06:03 PM, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> This is definitely a fraught topic, and it's unfortunate that there's
> no clear solution.
>
> To add a bit more information:
>
> - Async is more portable than it once was.  There's now Core_kernel,
>    Async_kernel and Async_rpc_kernel, which allows us to do things like
>    run Async applications in the browser.  I would think Windows
>    support would be pretty doable by someone who understands that world
>    well.

Just for information: with the ZeroMQ bindings that are in opam
(package zmq), it is possible to do synchronous and/or asynchronous 
distributed programming in OCaml.
That's not exactly RPC, but with some translation layer you can do some 
kind of RPC.
However, unlike async, zmq is not a pure OCaml library so
that's not as portable. You need the right version of the ZeroMQ
C++ library to be installed.

But, the good news, some asynchronous programming can be done
in OCaml without pulling in neither async nor lwt. :)

-- 
Regards,
Francois.
"When in doubt, use more types"