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These days a lot of programming languages (especially those leaning towards functional programming) offer a pipeline operator (|>), that allows you to feed some data through a “pipeline” of transformation steps.1 Here’s a trivial example in F#: Funny enough, even Ruby has a pipeline operator these days, although it’s not particularly useful there. ↩
This week consisted of a lot of spinning plates, which is unfortunate because it’s not something I’m very good at!
Are you curious about using OCaml for web development? We outline some of the biggest tools and libraries you'll want to check out!
Still 🪀ing somewhat, but various nice things happened this week.
We were present at BOBKonf 2025, as speakers and attendees! Here's a brief report on our experiences in Berlin.
Jane Street have been working for a few years on a whole suite of extensions to OCaml, many of which they’ve both blogged and published about. I did some hacking last year getting a version of that running on Windows, which I really must resurrect. But today I actually had a go at doing a tiny something with its features!