2026-09-12
Sometime in mid 2024, whilst preparing the slides for a presentation on smart-constructors and techniques of “positive functional constraints” (I had just created a pretty useful ZonedDateTime wrapper roughly like in my EzTime repo for a client and quite happy with how it turned out) … I found the “Is OCaml Web Yet?” page. I found it useful, and refreshingly honest.
Each aspect of web readiness had a coloured dot, running from green, “stable, tested and mature”, down to an SOS-red, “barely there, needs serious work”.
This is the type of thing that makes a geek think, now these guys & gals are REAL programmers.
Perhaps laying things out on the table, and enumerating the gaps of your software system is a bit autistic, and “non-producty” or “counter-commercial”… quirky even.
But not quirkier than watching Simon Peyton Jones prance around a lecture hall barefoot … like some giant river hobbit (stumbled on this gem whilst preparing the same presentation).
Anyways, here was the same page on the same OCaml site as of July 28, 2026:
The dots are gone. Somebody deliberately removed this honest level of detail.
Please bring back the dots.