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Lambda Retreat Report

Today we're taking a little pause from our OCaml 5 series to talk about a programming retreat. I spent a week in the woods with fellow…

12 Jan 2023

Tarides

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Engineer Spotlight: Sudha Parimala

For our third and final Engineer Spotlight, we interviewed Sudha Parimala, a Tarides engineer who works primarily on the Multicore…

10 Jan 2023

Tarides

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What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” thatmakes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratoryprogramming in a Jupyter no...

09 Jan 2023

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Release of ocplib-simplex, version 0.5

On last November, we released version 0.5 of ocplib-simplex, a generic library implementing the Simplex Algorithm in OCaml. It is a key component of the Alt-Ergo automatic theorem prover that we keep developing at OCamlPro. ** The Simplex Algorithm What Changed in 0.5 ? ] The simplex algorithm The S...

05 Jan 2023

OCamlPro

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Engineer Spotlight: Zach Shipko

Tarides engineer Zach Shipko answers a few questions about why he decided to learn OCaml and why he's particularly excited about the OCaml…

05 Jan 2023

Tarides

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emelletv #15 with Rudi Grinberg about OCaml, Dune, Opium and dev tools

Talking with Rudi Grinberg about OCaml, Opium and Dune Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/emelletv

02 Jan 2023

Emelle TV

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emelletv #15 with Rudi Grinberg about OCaml, Dune, Opium and dev tools

Talking with Rudi Grinberg about OCaml, Opium and Dune Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/emelletv

02 Jan 2023

Emelle TV

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The Growth of the OCaml Distribution

We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gi...

02 Jan 2023

OCamlPro

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OCaml.org: recapping 2022 and queries on the Fediverse

Recapping OCaml's 2022 progress and exploring Fediverse integration.

02 Jan 2023

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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