2011/3/31 Philippe Strauss <philou@philou.ch>

Le 31 mars 2011 à 10:19, Pierre-Alexandre Voye a écrit :

It's funny, because I'm studying why language succeed or not, for my M1 dissertation (M1 Management), and it's one of the big factor, among others, of sucess.
Ocaml is highly expressive, so you could turn around, but it's a big problem.

I think it would be important and interesting to create a little organization which discuss bout a standard lib and would begin making a synthesis of all these "standard" library.

Personally I'm not that unhappy with the standard lib shipped by INRIA.

maybe batteries and janestreet core (to name nowadays alternatives) have too big ambitions: extension library aside INRIA's standard lib would have more users than a complete alternative.

the way you can get haskell packaged easily, on the contrary, as some big appeal.

I think INRIA, and in particular the Xavier Leroy's team, make what they can. Their work isn't to maintain OCaml but mainly to do research.
So, I think INRIA could continue to work on a good compiler, and company which make business whith ocaml could discuss between them to agreed on standards, via Ocamlcore for instance, with the agreement of Xavier Leroy's team of course.