State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]
The next two years or so will be really exciting.<p>Rust is beginning to understand that they need more stability and LTS versions, and libraries are blossoming nicely.<p>Ocaml already has a very mature module ecosystem and is now becoming safe and modern.<p>I think rust will still have an edge in adoption due to its portrayal as C++ unfucked, but ocaml is definitely the easier tool to work with, imo. And maybe that will change.<p>I don't think even linear types and multicore would be enough for ocaml to make any significant dent in the systems programming world. Rist and C/C++/D/Zig all do memory management too conveniently, and it opens doors too close to the bottom for ocaml to keep up.<p>Any ocaml hackers: would you want to write system drivers in ocaml? Why/ why not?