and it also doesn't allow one to design that builder api as nicely as possible when you dont have to deal with ffi shenanigans

Tbh I get the huge urge to look up the ocaml compiler code and maybe try to improve it, sadly lately I lack a bit of time to do this, it probs also requires knowing quite a bit of ocaml already which i lack

I'm not gonna lie, i heard about F# but the reason i havent tried yet is its a Microsoft product, im on gentoo too. But maybe i give it a go

I'm gonna try @gleam.run
instead now

For example, you need to actually run "dune build" for the LSP to work -> already bad UX.

The most basic syntax errors give a error message like "Error: Syntax Error" with no hint whatsoever how to fix it, not even a snippet of the code, it just gives a x,y coordinate

so factorio should win