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		sheepscreek 89 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programm... 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 89 days ago [–]

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).

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