That makes sense, I guess I've got web tunnel vision.

sheepscreek · 2025-06-14T01:41:49 1749865309

I was bit by the same spider that gave you web tunnel vision. In any case, I find OCaml too esoteric for my taste. F# is softer and feels more..modern perhaps? But I don’t think GC can be avoided in dotnet.

debugnik · 2025-06-14T06:57:30 1749884250

You can avoid GC in hot loops in F# with value-types, explicit inlining, and mutability.

Mutability may not result in very idiomatic code however, although it can often be wrapped with a functional API (e.g. parser combinators).