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		nequo on April 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now > Ocaml is very niche, I feel it’s an hard sell for a general purpose language. Haskell, 3x that. The impression about Haskell’s nicheness compared with OCaml prevails. But Haskell has a larger userbase and a larger library ecosystem than OCaml.

alanfranz on April 7, 2023 [–]

A few years have passed since I last tried out both languages. Ocaml was sort of approachable, while Haskell required quite a different mindset imho, hence the “nicheness” from the general usage standpoint.

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