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Lots of programming languages have some built-in range functionality, that’s typically used to generate a list/array of integer numbers. Here are a couple of examples from Ruby and Clojure:
MirageOS is an OCaml ecosystem to construct unikernels, i.e., minimal operating systems. Here, we write about our social and technical…
While playing with OCaml I was surprised to learn there’s no built-in function the convert a string to a list of its characters. Admittedly, that’s not something you need very often, but it does come handy from time to time. There are many ways to implement such a function ourselves and the one I like the most makes use of List.init:
Composing Schedulers using Effect Handlers Deepali Ande (IIT Madras) KC Sivaramakrishnan (IIT Madras and Tarides) OCaml 5 introduces effect handlers as a mechanism for con- current programming. With effect handlers, concurrency can be expre...
Multicoretests - Parallel Testing Libraries for OCaml 5.0 Jan Midtgaard (Tarides) Olivier Nicole (Tarides) Nicolas Osborne (Tarides) Parallel and concurrent code is notoriously hard to test because of the involved non-determinism, yet it i...
Into the Fire The OCaml ecosystem relies on various resources and infrastructure such as ocaml.org, OCaml Docker images, opam-repo-ci, that…
