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An industrial-strength functional programming language with an emphasis on expressiveness and safety. Website: www.ocaml.org

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OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025 (tarides.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/ocaml@discuss.tchncs.de

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Should you use OCaml for web projects? Web development trends are a hotly debated topic in the computer programming world and the familiar faces of languages and frameworks are unlikely to change: hypertext markup language or HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the core technologies (with server-side technologies such as PHP, Python, etc.), and React, Vue, Svelte, and Angular are proving to be as popular as ever. AI and machine learning might be the biggest foreseeable changes to the industry, driving the emergence of new tools and workflows. But there is something else gaining momentum in the world of web development: functional programming!…

[–] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

IMHO you should use OCaml for web projects. Dream is great for small websites and RESTful servers. Ocsigen is ... astonishing. I would definitely recommend taking a look at it.