Room for an OCaml IDE
Jon Harrop
I’m currently writing a server for the finance industry in OCaml on Linux. The OCaml language is superb, of course, but the development environment is really painful compared to, for example, F# in Visual Studio on Windows. The main problems are lack of integration and bugs (Merlin in Emacs hangs so often I have a second terminal window open just to run “killall emacs”!).
Consequently, I think there is room for an OCaml IDE and my personal choice would be to wrap the OCaml compiler in a server and write the IDE in F# as a client on Windows. If the work continues I’ll probably have a go at this myself… J
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Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
Malcolm Matalka
Bugs in Merlin are fixable, surely that is less effort than building an IDE from scratch and benefits more people?
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Jon Harrop
Ø Less effort
I think this would only be a couple of hundred lines of code.
Ø Benefits more people
Self selection. Almost all OCaml developers use not-Windows because OCaml’s support for Windows is so dire. This would hugely improve support for OCaml development on Windows (even though the OCaml is actually running on a Linux server).