Here’s a post from a talk I gave this last summer during our internship program about why we use OCaml. It spends a lot of time on how OCaml fits into the space of programming language designs, and why we think OCaml is in a real sweet spot in that design space, especially for the kind of work we do at Jane Street. Warning: it’s a very informal talk, with lots of questions and answers from the aud
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