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OCaml.
Sad I had to scroll to the end to see this.
Ocaml is brilliant and has the nicest type features. It's almost like Haskell but more approachable imo.
Coming from Haskell, OCaml always felt a bit strange to me. The double semicolons, the inconsistency in the standard library between curried and uncurried functions etc. Maybe I'm confusing it with Standard ML though, can't remember.
I know double semicolons are a thing, but I've never had to use them. I forget what they're for, but yeah it's supposed to be an escape hatch for something that shouldn't be happening iirc.
The curried snd uncurried functions... Maybe you are confusing with SML, because everything in ocaml is curried by default. Though admittedly the standard library could be more complete, but I personally am happy to use third party dependencies for less common things.