Worked on an ocaml codebase for two years. My advice is: choose a different language. It's just not a great dev experience in general

> Worked on an X language codebase for two years. My advice is: choose a different language. It's just not a great dev experience in general.

I'm pretty sure it's "working on a codebase" that kills your soul, not the minutae of particular language choice.

I also worked on an ocaml codebase for a roughly similar time frame and found it extremely pleasant. Probably the best time I spent as a dev with working on an Ada project with a great architecture.

Depends on what you compare it with, I guess. (I worked in OCaml and Haskell and other 'weird' languages professionally in different jobs for many years.)

What were the main issues you came across? What language would you prefer if you had to start from scratch and had the choice to go with anything else?