Re: [Caml-list] how to encourage adoption of OCaml?

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

On 08/07/2016 14:57, Dean Thompson wrote:
> Thank you, everyone, for the responses and discussion. If there is interest, I would still love to hear more thoughts about whether there is a roadmap (either de facto from the community, or explicit from leaders of the community) to foster broader adoption.
>
> I see that many organizations are making immense contributions to the community: from language and ecosystem enhancements, to Real World OCaml, to the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Technical progress is rapid. But so far, to me, these wonderful contributions feel more like giving back to the community for us to make what we can of them, rather than anyone’s systematic effort to streamline broader uptake of OCaml.
>
> These are the impressions of a newcomer. If there is interest, I would love to hear more seasoned viewpoints.

Just a personal viewpoint: I have a feeling that another functional 
language with strong static types has a much larger user community.

By larger, I mean it looks like they are way above the critical mass of 
a healthy open source community.
And I feel that for OCaml we are under this critical mass.

Just a few figures I could collect: on github there are 8018 
repositories using OCaml and 1875 users.
While there are 49872 repositories for Haskell and 6728 users !

PS: those are just _some_ figures out of all the ones we could collect,
     so please take them with a grain of salt.

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