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Be Selfish, Then Generalize When Contributing
- Prioritize your own team's needs when contributing to a language but generalize where possible.
- Aim to make OCaml better for Jane Street workflows while keeping changes broadly useful.
GC And Layout Limit Low-Level Control
- OCaml lacks low-level control of memory layout and stack allocation compared to C/Rust.
- That limits some high-performance idioms and motivates features like unboxed types and stack-like allocations.
Dependent Types Offer Stronger Guarantees
- OCaml's type system is expressive but can be extended toward dependent types for stronger guarantees.
- Dependent types let you express precise properties like list lengths directly in types.