[Caml-list] backend in OCaml

[Caml-list] backend in OCaml

[Lorenzo Pomili]

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Hi all,
I work as front end developer in JavaScript developper and I'm trying to
learn to work in OCaml and in general with functional programming so I
opted for backend,

first question: make backend in OCaml have sense? or is kind of project who
don't fit with functional paradigm?

second question: first thing I'm trying to do, is simple wrapper for
database calls but I'm not sue if is better make calls sync or async?

regards
Lorenzo

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Re: [Caml-list] backend in OCaml

[Lorenzo Pomili]

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Thanks both for reply, for async lib at the moment I'm using Async but I'll
try Lwt too.

2016-09-08 9:58 GMT+02:00 Danny Willems <contact@danny-willems.be>:

> Hi Lorenzo.
>
> For your first question: it makes all sense. The entire OCaml environment
> is pretty good and complete and you can build stronger and more stable
> backend thanks to the type system of OCaml (and of course all other
> functional features, I can be more complete if you want). OCaml allows you
> to use the paradigm you want: object, imperative of functional. Even if the
> functional paradigm is the most used. Another good aspect of OCaml is the
> syntax is very simple.
>
> Second question: Async is always the better way to do requests to
> databases because access to databases is sometimes slow and it will block
> your app since the request is not finished. You have two popular libraries
> for async programming in OCaml: Lwt (part of the Ocsigen project, a web
> framework entirely in OCaml, https://ocsigen.org/lwt) and Async
> (JaneStreet, https://github.com/janestreet/async).
>
> If you comes from the JavaScript community, there are some OCaml to
> JavaScript compilers (js_of_ocaml: https://ocsigen/js_of_ocaml and
> BuckleScript: https://github.com/bloomberg/bucklescript). You can write
> OCaml code, compiles it in JavaScript and use the entire JavaScript
> environment. There are some work in progress to create bindings to popular
> NodeJS packages to facilitate the migration in OCaml for JavaScript
> developer.
>
> Danny Willems.
>
>
>
> On 09/08/2016 08:52 AM, Lorenzo Pomili wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I work as front end developer in JavaScript developper and I'm trying to
>> learn to work in OCaml and in general with functional programming so I
>> opted for backend,
>>
>> first question: make backend in OCaml have sense? or is kind of project
>> who don't fit with functional paradigm?
>>
>> second question: first thing I'm trying to do, is simple wrapper for
>> database calls but I'm not sue if is better make calls sync or async?
>>
>> regards
>> Lorenzo
>>
>
>
>

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