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Why is the OCaml Standard library so limited?

April 26, 2017Functional library limited ocaml Programming standard

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Why is the OCaml Standard library so limited?

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Basically, the idea is that: • only what’s needed to compile the compiler goes into the standard library • the standard library is guaranteed to be correct and well-tested, which would be harder to guarantee for a larger library given the limited resources of the OCaml team.