On: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)

[zozbot234]

> A garbage collected relatively simple language that compiles into a statically linked binary but has a type system similar to rust, rest types etc.

You just described Ocaml and ReasonML (which is Ocaml with Go-like syntax).

[glass-z13 → zozbot234]

Last time i tried to install ocaml on windows few months ago i failed to do so, it's a well known thing that it is not 100% supported on windows therefore it wont have the adoption that go/rust has (as it's been the case forever now)

[ogogmad → zozbot234]

This doesn't count because the idioms are very different from Go and Rust. And I suspect there's a high learning curve for features like Functors.

If you check the Wikipedia page for OCaml to find out where it gets used, you'll see why it's ocaML. That is, you'll notice that it's mostly a MetaLanguage, or a language for writing other languages. The same observation applies to other languages in the ML family.