08:46 <Leonidas> Time to update the topic: https://ocaml.org/releases/5.2.0 :-)

08:46 <Leonidas> 5.2 is now POWERful

09:07 <reynir> sounds RISCy :D

09:28 <theblatte> Re-introduced GC compaction :')

09:47 <Leonidas> GC compaction** **T&C applies, customer pays for shipping

10:28 <discocaml> <lukstafi> Not highlighted: Bigarray support for half precision

15:34 <discocaml> <vinwin008> How is Ocaml as a first language

15:37 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> IMO it's a good first language, though what language you want to learn probably depends on why you're learning to code

15:38 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> e.g. if you want to go into industry in the short term, or you want to do game development in the short term, or you want to do webdev etc, there might be other appropriate languages

15:38 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> in terms of just getting the hang of programming though, I think ocaml has some advantages

15:40 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> mostly that you can focus on writing code while having the compiler reason about types, and let the editor extension act as training wheels

15:41 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> while also being relatively high level, e.g. you don't need to manage or think about memory as much

15:42 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> i think when i was learning programming by writing python, i was very frustrated by debugging type errors, and lost a lot of time as a result

15:42 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> but this is just my 2 cents

15:42 <discocaml> <uberpyro181> make sure you have everything properly set up with editor support, e.g. any errors you make are immediately underlined

15:44 <discocaml> <andreypopp> "good first language" as you have to write a lot of yourself 🙂

15:59 <discocaml> <leostera> i'd say its a better second or third language

22:35 <masterbuilder> how do you remove an opam switch link?

22:37 <masterbuilder> oh, I happened to have the output of the last switch link way back in my terminal buffer, it explains how to do that, just remove the _opam symlink