I don't think that's the situation, but if you are irreversibly committed to a technology, you have an interest in seeing that tech continue to advance. Being stuck on a dead tech is even worse.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. What is the situation?
> Being stuck on a dead tech is even worse.
Why do you think OCaml is a "dead tech"? Can you justify that? Or is it just based on the notion that if most people don't use it, it must be a bad tool?