On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Christophe Papazian
<christophe.papazian@gmail.com> wrote:
Selling cars without tires !
This is a huge problem of the ocaml community. Who wants a minimal library ?
What makes other languages popular ? There are huge API.
For Ocaml, the main web site is just for the compiler, the ocaml hump is refreshed
each month with few new things. So I need to use as well godi (another web site),
batteries (still in progress, another web site), janestreet (another solution, another
web site). Everybody is making is own api, which is not very interesting for the end user.
When I use python or latex, eveything is centralized, I pick the packages I need, and all is done.
Ocaml situation would be understandable if this was something new, but after 15 years, it's just
the french way : "We have good ideas, but we don't care how to sell them".
And this must be a reason why ocaml community is still small.
Christophe
Le 30 mars 11 à 14:57, Dawid Toton a écrit :