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> There is no alternative to Django, for instance.

https://aantron.github.io/dream/, which is new and used by ocaml.org as well as OP

> No serious IDE, except emacs

and vim, and visual studio, and whatever else supports the LSP protocol via https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-lsp

> The standard library was so lacking that there is at least an alternative.

While janestreet does have an publish their own stdlib, I personally try to stick to the stdlib whenever possible. Not to knock janestreet. I'm glad they're around and have contributed a bunch.

But overall I agree with you. It's been my favorite language to write in for years now. You can't just reach for off-the-shelf libraries for every little thing. Although the ones that do exist tend to be written halfway decently.

Perhaps the README[1] is out of date, but it appears to note that textDocument/implementation is not done? That's a pretty big hole.

[1]: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-lsp/#features

> The last time I tried neovim the LSP kept crashing for me on random occasions, some plugins had considerable performance issues, some things weren't async, and so forth.

Any issues with the language server I doubt are client side, and every request/response is "async".

For a minimum setup it is:

1. Install the language server via opam:

  opam pin add ocaml-lsp-server https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-lsp.git

  opam install ocaml-lsp-server

2. Add lspconfig, the plugin

3. Add the following to your init.lua

  require'lspconfig'.ocamllsp.setup{}

4. That will give you basic linting, you can add keybindings/omnifunc integrations by copying out our configuration examples from `:help lspconfig` or the lspconfig wiki.

We're not trying to target vscode users, so if the above is too many steps that is ok, you just aren't our target audience.