Looking for OCaml IDE [closed]

Question

I like F# but sometimes I need something light and cross-platform and without .NET for sure. I tried to use OCamL many times but seems like I just can't start it.

1. Installed IDEA, added OCamL plugin -> Doesn't work
2. Installed eclipse ODT plugin -> Can't launch even config OCamL compiler - too complicated
3. Even had tried NetBeans plugin a long time ago but even can't deal with it.

So, for now, I'm using ocamlc -o "main.exe" "main.ml" from the command shell and different light editors. I don't use Vim or Emacs, I'm using nano and I have a habit of usage full-featured IDEs.

I found various documentation (this is looking like the best to start http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html for me) but still being confusing when looking for something a bit specific alike sqlite access. found this: http://neugierig.org/software/ocaml/sqlite/ with strange api annotation and no examples. And all the documentation about IDE usage I found are outdated or doesn't work.

Addition subquestion: some people told me "don't use OCamL, it's a dead language for students with low libraries support and seems like dying, use python or ruby instead". But I like the beauty of OCamL. I want to give it a try. Tell me if that is normal to use OCamL for production code today?

thank you.

Answer 1

There is TypeRex, a new development environment for OCaml. Here is a summary of TypeRex features:

• Improved syntax coloring
• Auto-completion of identifiers (experimental)
• Browsing of identifiers: show type and comment, go to definition, cycle between alternate definitions, and semantic grep;
• Strictly semantic-preserving, local and whole-program refactoring:
  • renaming identifiers and compilation units
  • open elimination and reference simplification
• Robust w.r.t. not-recompiled, possibly unsaved buffers
• Scalable (used regularly on a few hundreds of source files)

There are some screenshots available on the website. The first release candidate is out since yesterday.

EDIT: The first release (v1.0) is out now :-)