On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Allan Wegan <allanwegan@allanwegan.de> wrote:

I am new to OCaml and wonder, whether there exists any noob-friendly
X-based IDE that is at least a bit like PyCharm. Termianl-based editors
and IDEs proved to be cumbersome and too shortcut-heavy in the past.
Has anyone seen such a beast?

Sure we have! OCaml-top [1] is very newbie friendly and work out of box, ideal for

the first steps. Even a faster way to start is to try OCaml in your web browser [2].

Once you feel yourself more comfortable in the language, you should consider to switch

to emacs, vim or sublime. They all have a nice integration with OCaml, including intellisense

like completion, code and doc lookup and incremental typechecking.

[1]: https://www.typerex.org/ocaml-top.html

[2]: https://try.ocamlpro.com/

I come from Python in need of more performance and already wrote some
tens of lines of code feeling that this language might be exactly what i
need to write the more performance-critical parts in (don't like C/C++).

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