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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.
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> 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.