Here’s a post from a talk I gave this last summer during our internship program about why we use OCaml. It spends a lot of time on how OCaml fits into the space of programming language designs, and why we think OCaml is in a real sweet spot in that design space, especially for the kind of work we do at Jane Street.

Warning: it’s a very informal talk, with lots of questions and answers from the audience, not all of which are clearly audible, for which I apologize. Still, I hope people will get something out of it.