What OCaml can learn from Go

ocaml-learn-from-go.md

Editor support

Embrace newer editors like Sublime Text over traditional favourites like vim and Emacs

Gosublime works very well with sublime, which is a very good programmer's text editors by all accounts. OCaml has https://github.com/whitequark/sublime-better-ocaml. The problems with 'better-ocaml' are:

• it does not recognize opam

OCaml's build system is complicated

lot of complicated looking makefiles. Compare with go build.

Packaging OCaml is not easy.

Compare with Go's - github.com/USER/PACKAGE.

What is the right project structure for OCaml?

Are there are any tools that can autogenerate a project structure

• see haskell-cabal's - cabal init
• python paster

ocaml-stuff.md

OBuild - https://github.com/ocaml-obuild/obuild

• NOTE: looks like you can ignore this safely for now. duplicates ocamlfind, and ocamlfind is the "preferred" way.
• is a build system.
• uses a config file that is similar to .cabal file.

Oasis - http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/

• is tool to integrate a configure, build and install system in your OCaml project. It helps to create standard entry points in your build system and allows external tools to analyse your project easily.
• target OCamlBuild
• takes ideas from Cabal.

OCamlBuild - http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/ocamlbuild/

• Manual

sublime-text-and-ocaml.md

Sublime text 3 and OCaml

Sublime ocp-index

uses ocp-index library to provide easy access to the information contained in your OCaml cmi/cmt/cmti files. It is used to provide features like library interface browsing, auto-completion, show-type and goto-source.

If the ocp-index is too old, s-o-i does not work, so use the trunk version thusly:

opam pin ocp-index git://github.com/OCamlPro/ocp-index

Merlin