Foundations for hacking on OCaml

How do you acquire the fundamental computer skills to hack on a complex systems project like OCaml? What’s missing and how do you go about bridging the gap? There are many fundamental systems skills that go into working on a language like OCaml that only come with soaking in systems programming. By systems programming, I mean the ability to use tools like the command-line, editors, version control, build systems, compilers, debuggers, bash scripting, and so on. This is often something that one takes for gra