I completely agree with the fact that one of our main targets should be "decision makers" (project managers, etc.). For them, we still need to make OCaml appear as a mainstream language, with all the ecosystem that they would find for any other mainstream language. It requires to communicate a lot, publish blog posts about OCaml, talk about OCaml and projects written in OCaml in mainstream websites (StackOverflow, Reddit, etc.), and, as I said before, it should be an effort done by the whole community. It might appear less fun than hacking your preferred project, but on the long term, it may be more effective in the modern world.

--Fabrice


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@rktmb.org> wrote:
On 2013-05-28 15:36, oliver wrote:
I also had the goal to attract people to OCaml, years ago.
Today it's not necessary to me to have more OCaml-prorammers around me.
I use OCaml for my own stuff, and if the jobs affords C, Perl, Python,
I possibly will mention OCaml, but don't dream about decision makers
really to adopt it.
I stopped dreaming about this issue.

I keep hoping/dreaming my side :-)

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RMA.



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Fabrice LE FESSANT
Chercheur en Informatique
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
Programming Languages and Distributed Systems