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Most of the time, our relationship to programming languages is somewhat remote; we depend on the arcane details of the languages we use, but we don’t usually have much of a say in how those languages evolve. At Jane Street, we started out in that mode, as a mere user of the language. But over the last 15 years, we’ve moved to a more active stance, where today, we have a team of compiler devs who actively contribute to OCaml, and where we’re more deeply involved in figuring out the future direction of the language. In this talk, we discuss that history, touching on how upstream changes impacted us along the way, how we came to start making changes ourselves, and what ongoing projects we’re excited about. Presented by Yaron Minsky Yaron Minsky joined Jane Street back in 2002, and claims the dubious honor of having convinced the firm to start using OCaml. He also spends way too much time teaching his kids how to program.

Most of the time, our relationship to programming languages is somewhat remote; we depend on the arcane details of the languages we use, but we don’t usually have much of a say in how those languages evolve. At Jane Street, we started out in that mode, as a mere user of the language. But over the last 15 years, we’ve moved to a more active stance, where today, we have a team of compiler devs who actively contribute to OCaml, and where we’re more deeply involved in figuring out the future direction of the language. In this talk, we discuss that history, touching on how upstream changes impacted us along the way, how we came to start making changes ourselves, and what ongoing projects we’re excited about. Presented by Yaron Minsky Yaron Minsky joined Jane Street back in 2002, and claims the dubious honor of having convinced the firm to start using OCaml. He also spends way too much time teaching his kids how to program.

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Speaker: David Allsopp

Did you know that Jane Street uses OCaml for, like, everything? Did you also know that Jane Street builds FPGA designs? A problem? Come and find out how we design and test our FPGAs. We'll have some fun (or terrible disasters) with some demos on the Arty A7 hobbyist FPGA board, with the design expressed using HardCaml, an OCaml library for creating hardware designs, and driven by an embedded software stack written in OCaml and using ports of your favorite Jane Street libraries. I'll round up with some thoughts on the pros and cons of writing hardware in OCaml, and talk about some ideas we would like to explore to make the process more productive in the future. Presented by: Andy Ray Andy has been designing IP cores for nearly 20 years mainly in the areas of networking and video coding. Frustration with standard RTL development processes led him to develop the HardCaml suite of hardware design tools in OCaml. Then one day while down at the pub he got an email from Jane Street wondering about some sort of collaboration, and the rest is history.

Did you know that Jane Street uses OCaml for, like, everything? Did you also know that Jane Street builds FPGA designs? A problem? Come and find out how we design and test our FPGAs. We'll have some fun (or terrible disasters) with some demos on the Arty A7 hobbyist FPGA board, with the design expressed using HardCaml, an OCaml library for creating hardware designs, and driven by an embedded software stack written in OCaml and using ports of your favorite Jane Street libraries. I'll round up with some thoughts on the pros and cons of writing hardware in OCaml, and talk about some ideas we would like to explore to make the process more productive in the future. Presented by: Andy Ray Andy has been designing IP cores for nearly 20 years mainly in the areas of networking and video coding. Frustration with standard RTL development processes led him to develop the HardCaml suite of hardware design tools in OCaml. Then one day while down at the pub he got an email from Jane Street wondering about some sort of collaboration, and the rest is history.

Documenting OCaml, (Invited Talk: Florian Angeletti)

Speaker: Runhang Li