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MirageOS: Designing a More Resilient Networking Stack With µTCP

There is no room for complacency in software development! In the OCaml ecosystem, improvements are continuously introduced to optimise…

24 Jan 2024

Tarides

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opam 101: the first steps

Welcome, dear reader, to a new series of blog posts! This series will be about everything opam. Each article will cover a specific aspect of the package manager, and make sure to dissipate any confusion or misunderstandings on this keystone of the OCaml distribution! Each technical article will be t...

23 Jan 2024

OCamlPro

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The OCaml Community

For starters, here's a little tour of our amazing community.

21 Jan 2024

Idara Nabuk

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Outreachy Blog: Everyone Struggles

Starting off isn't always easy. Here's my experience at the beginning.

21 Jan 2024

Idara Nabuk

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What are Data Races? And do They Threaten Your Business?

Imagine you have a brand-new coffee machine. One morning, you traipse excitedly down the stairs only to discover that, alas, your appliance…

17 Jan 2024

Tarides

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Concepts of Functional Programming

This post explores the concepts of functional programming, including immutability, pure functions, higher-order functions, recursion, and more. It also delves into the history of functional programming and introduces Lambda Calculus. If you're new to functional programming or want to deepen your understanding, this post is for you.

16 Jan 2024

Emil Privér

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Learning OCaml: Verifying tail-recursion with @tailcall

How can you be sure that an OCaml function you wrote is actually tail-recursive? You can certainly compile the code and look at the generated assembly code, but that’d be quite the overkill, given there is a much simpler way to do this.

16 Jan 2024

Bozhidar Batsov

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