First approximation #54
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Giving these labels is rather difficult and relatively subjective. I expect that people will disagree with some of the labels given, and/or propose changing them. Feel free to say yes to any change proposal -- I'm not too opinionated about these. |
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depends what you call System Programming but there are a few system projects written in OCaml which are a bit more than immature: XenServer, libguest, MirageOS, etc. There are also a good book on Unix programming using OCaml available on the web.
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Agreed. I would even say OCaml is one of the finest system programming languages, since it keeps a prefect balance between security and flexibility of the low level primitives.
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Not sure why I put "immature" here, I think I meant to write "mature". @samoht , would you send a PR fixing that, with the links / resources as well?
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Also I'm worried we may get bitten by the different meaning that people attach to "System programming". Rather surprisingly (to me), Mirage demonstrated that OCaml is effective at OS-level stuff. But if you mean for example "modern unix user-level scripting", OCaml is a bit out of date (how do I talk to systemd services for example? install bpf_filter programs? where are my bindings to the Linux system calls?) on the library front (we do have mature D-bus libraries, and Richard Jones' virtualization stuff),
I think we won't get away with "Best in class" but that would almost be within reach. "Mature" is good in any case.
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Yep. Mature it is. Everything you said could be included in the description of the section to clarify the rating.
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@gasche extunix gives you many more system calls than just base-unix.
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Ok, I felt bad about it so I submitted #57 to start fixing it.
Depends on #53 .