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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64B887FE44 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2016 15:45:28 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,330,1464645600"; d="scan'208";a="184293810" Received: from meleze.ens.fr (HELO [129.199.99.114]) ([129.199.99.114]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 08 Jul 2016 15:45:13 +0200 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <20160704144512.GB2458@Razor> From: Francois Berenger Message-ID: <577FAE69.3060807@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 15:45:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] how to encourage adoption of OCaml? 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"