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Rather varied week this week. A number of our EEG interns have started their work with us for the summer, with two nice projects falling under my direct supervision, with Lucas and Jeremy. It’s great to get to watch people start their first forays into the world of hacking on OCaml, once the customary “I was a baby when you started maintaining OCaml” comments et al are out of the way 😂 It’s also great to get to see the excitement, and reassuring to know that it is still an exciting thing to get to do for new people too!
Discover our Internship project focusing on building new visualisations for OCaml's memory profiler "statmemprof".
While comfort-watching the indomitable Joan Hickson as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in The Body in the Library, it occurred to me that Miss Marple would have been a formidable debugger. Since returning from holiday one, two, three weeks ago, I’ve been mostly straightening out and finalising the final Relocatable OCaml PR. A frustrating task, because I know these things will take weeks and have little to show for at the end, so one spends the entire time feeling it should be finished by now. It’s just about there, when this little testsuite failure popped up:
Discover the work that went into improving OCaml debugging for macOS including frame pointers, CFI fixes and CI improvements.
