Is OCaml better than Haskell?

If Haskell is a niche language, then OCaml is a super-niche language. The OCaml community is much smaller. Where Haskell is doing more-or-less fine with libraries, OCaml has significantly less to propose. There are some nice libraries in OCaml, but in many areas the situation is not perfect.

Is Haskell easy to learn?

Even among the functional languages Haskell is especially hard to learn. This is due to its terse syntax, abstractness, purity, and its community’s love of one letter identifier names. Many of these things give Haskell unique strengths, but they also make it hard to learn.

Is OCaml like Haskell?

OCaml is more of a multi-paradigm language than Haskell. It’s not purely functional, so you can easily fallback into imperative code if you need (you can use mutable variables, I/O, mutable arrays, hashmaps, for loops, while loops, etc.).

What is the difference between Haskell and OCaml?

If Haskell is a niche language, then OCaml is a super-niche language. The OCaml community is much smaller. Where Haskell is doing more-or-less fine with libraries, OCaml has significantly less to propose. There are some nice libraries in OCaml, but in many areas the situation is not perfect.

What makes OCaml better than other programming languages?

You will never have to deal with a mysterious space leak because the code behaves predictably and the cost model is composable. OCaml has a far more sophisticated module system. In particular, OCaml modules actually have types, like everything else in the language!

Is there a Unicode-aware string type in OCaml?

For example, you would expect a modern Unicode-aware string type in your language of choice. While Haskell has Text, OCaml mostly uses its built-in string type, which is simply an array of bytes. There is the uutf library, but it is essentially just byte-by-byte encoder/decoder.

How good is Haskell for parsing?

Haskell shines in anything parsing related. Most starkly in relation to parsing in any of the other languages you tried. But also in relation to OCaml, even if slightly less so. Tiny project idea: get familiar with Parsec, and write a JSON parser. Or if you have more time, and enough Chutzpah, Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours.