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> The fact is, this is hugely important to the vast majority of the software
> industry and companies are investing massive amounts of time and effort
> into
> parallelizing their software. Developers are flocking to .NET because it
> makes parallelism easy and OCaml has the potential to provide these
> benefits
> if the parallel GC project flies.
>
> Maybe...  while I agree with your earlier points, I have not seen *any*
.NET uptake in the bay area, particularly with startups.  People are using
Hadoop, or some in-house version of it, or toying with Erlang, to get
parallel efficiency.

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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
The fact is, this is hugely important to the vast majority of the software<br>
industry and companies are investing massive amounts of time and effort into<br>
parallelizing their software. Developers are flocking to .NET because it<br>
makes parallelism easy and OCaml has the potential to provide these benefits<br>
if the parallel GC project flies.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div></blockquote><div>Maybe...&nbsp; while I agree with your earlier points, I have not seen *any* .NET uptake in the bay area, particularly with startups.&nbsp; People are using Hadoop, or some in-house version of it, or toying with Erlang, to get parallel efficiency.<br>
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