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Date: | 2010-07-25 (21:45) |
From: | Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@y...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] scalable web apps |
Hi, > I would ask that question again, but miss out the "with OCaml" part, > because really the choice of language doesn't matter very much. Indeed. Note, however, that more than once have people raised the issue of Ocaml's non-concurrent GC on Ocsigen's mailing-list. The doubt is always whether this makes any Ocaml-based framework unsuitable for scalable web applications. I think it's important to assuage those fears once and for all: in no meaningful way does Ocaml's single-coredness constitute an impediment towards scalability in the web domain. > Or if you prefer think of it this way: People are using really > unsuitable languages (PHP) and really slow languages (Ruby, PHP, > Python, Perl) on some massive websites out there. Yeap. Personally, I find Ocsigen's greatest advantage to be the safety and expressiveness that it brings to backend programming (and soon also to the frontend). The fact that it's also fast is just icing on the cake... Cheers, Dario Teixeira