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		agrafix on June 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Crystal Programming Language ...and is a slow compiler compared to for example Go :-(

dmbaturin on June 6, 2015 | [–]

OCaml has separate compilation, a REPL, and it's very fast. None of those things is incompatible with global type inference (although particular type systems can be).

seanmcdirmid on June 7, 2015 | | [–]

Doesn't OCaml require everything to be defined before used though?

Vulume on June 6, 2015 | [–]

That's a problem with Cabal, not GHC. They're working on it.

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