[ng12]

Yes and they had to basically build their own version of the compiler to keep everything from falling over (https://oxcaml.org/).

[wrenky]

> Our hope is that these extensions can over time be contributed to upstream OCaml.

Yeah, its more just extensions to support their use cases at scale. Think of it more as bleeding edge ocmal, once they work out kinks/concerns they'll get merged back into the language OR if it remains ultra specific it'll stay in oxcaml.

Not a complete own version lol

[ng12]

Yes but the context of the thread is OCaml being "almost there". Having to build this stuff in-house is pretty good evidence.

[byefruit]

This is the wrong interpretation of the oxcaml project. If you look at the features and work on it, it's primarily performance or parallelism safety features.

The latter going much further than most mainstream languages.