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debugnik
9 days ago
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CSS now has an if() conditional function
You say that, but people in OCaml keep bemoaning the use of mostly declarative s-expressions in the Dune build system. Imagine the reaction if MSBuild used an actual Scheme.
jimbokun
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Why doesn't the OCaml build system use OCaml?
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spooky_deep
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You don’t want a language with non-determinism, arbitrary IO, impure functions etc. for build configuration ideally.
I guess the answer to your question is OCaml has unmanaged side effects.
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spooky_deep
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They don’t know how good they really have it :)
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