Blog

The OCaml Planet

Articles and videos contributed by both experts, companies and passionate developers from the OCaml community. From in-depth technical articles, project highlights, community news, or insights into Open Source projects, the OCaml Planet RSS feed aggregator has something for everyone.

Want your Blog Posts or Videos to Show Here?

To contribute a blog post, or add your RSS feed, check out the Contributing Guide on GitHub.

How to get started with OCaml in 2022

Our favorite recommendations for getting started with OCaml

31 Oct 2022

Ahrefs

Read Article
OCaml Tips: Implementing a range Function

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:

31 Oct 2022

Bozhidar Batsov

Read Article
The MirageOS Retreat: A Journey of Food, Cats, and Unikernels

MirageOS is an OCaml ecosystem to construct unikernels, i.e., minimal operating systems. Here, we write about our social and technical…

28 Oct 2022

Tarides

Read Article
OCaml Tips: Converting a String to a List of Characters

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:

24 Oct 2022

Bozhidar Batsov

Read Article
Up-to-Date Online Documentation

Into the Fire The OCaml ecosystem relies on various resources and infrastructure such as ocaml.org, OCaml Docker images, opam-repo-ci, that…

20 Oct 2022

Tarides

Read Article
Porting Charrua-Unix and Rawlink to Eio

This article describes the porting of the DHCP daemon charrua-unix and its companion library rawlink to Eio for the upcoming OCaml 5 release…

19 Oct 2022

Tarides

Read Article
OCaml's Platform Installer Alpha Release

Yesterday we announced the OCaml 5 beta release, and today we're excited to introduce the OCaml Platform Installer! The OCaml Platform is…

18 Oct 2022

Tarides

Read Article