sexp VS base

There's a tool sexp that Jane Street uses internally to slice and dice sexp logs, but, yes, I get that there aren't logging services out there that support sexps. They should, though, as sexps have unique advantages over JSON. They tend to be more human-readable too. Great blog post overall!

I don’t know OCaml, or really any language that would help me fully understand the code, but my exposure to OCaml is this stuff, and it looks pretty clean to me. https://github.com/janestreet/base

Of course, I haven’t read every file, so maybe I got lucky with my random sampling.

Real World OCaml uses Base to replace OCaml's stdlib. I am not very fond of Base since it deviates from the standard convention of passing functions before values in HOC. To fix the ordering, one has to use labels:

As far as standard library usage goes, I highly recommend using Base. Instead of implementing list_of_string, you could use Base.String.to_list. Even if you don't end up using Base, you can get the same thing from the built in standard library by doing String.to_seq then List.of_seq.