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Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml

Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml.
Greetings! I’m a new OCaml user. The intent of this post is simply to share my experience thus far in OCaml and hopefully generate some casual conversation about how other community users think about & use OCaml. What do I hope to get from this post? Critiques, affirmation, tips, whatever. I learned OCaml alone, in a bubble, during pandemic lockdown. Was my experience the classic OCaml learning experience, or was it unique in some way? I’m hoping to garner feedback from other community members. …

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