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		Alifatisk on Sept 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should I Rust or Should I Go? What’s your thoughts on Ocaml? I’ve been curious Facebooks heavy use of it

trollerator23 on Sept 15, 2023 [–]

They do?? Sauce?

stefanos82 on Sept 15, 2023 | | [–]

https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check

https://github.com/facebook/flow

https://github.com/facebook/infer

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/tree/master/hphp/hack

ysleepy on Sept 15, 2023 | | [–]

I remember reading years ago that the hack compiler was built in ocaml. compilers and such are often built using languages with nice ADTs afaik.

itishappy on Sept 15, 2023 | | [–]

The Rust compiler was bootstrapped from OCaml as well!

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