Using Core and Lwt together

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I am using Core and Lwt together in a library I am working on. Core has good modules I'm familiar with and I'm more comfortable with Lwt threads.

Is this a common thing to do? Is there any strong reason not to do that and instead use, let's say, only Core or only Lwt+Batteries?

ivg · Answer 1 · 2014-12-09T00:27:42.423

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Core works fine with Lwt to my experience. Although, I personally think that Async is more powerful, but Lwt is easier to start with, but on a long run you may found yourself reimplementing stuff from Async. It should mentioned, that lwt has a significant advantage in comparison with async it works on windows and js. But if doesn't matter for you, I would personally suggest to use Async.

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answered Dec 08 '14 at 23:42

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '14 at 23:52

This should be fine. I do it all the time. I wrote the Future library, so I don't have to choose between Lwt and Async. However, be warned there are subtle differences in the semantics of Async and Lwt, so I won't recommend Future for very tricky concurrency code.

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