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Signing Data for Smart Contracts

Smart contracts calls already provide a built-in authentication mechanism as transactions (i.e. call operations) are cryptographically signed by the sender of the transaction. This is a guarantee on which programs can rely. However, sometimes you may want more involved or flexible authentication sch...

05 Mar 2019

OCamlPro

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Why GADTs matter for performance

When GADTs (Generalized Algebraic DataTypes) landed inOCaml, I wasn’t particularly happy about it. I assumed that it was the kind ofnonsense you get when you...

30 Mar 2015

Jane Street Tech Blog

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OCamlPro Highlights: May-June 2014

Here is a short report on some of our public activities in May and June 2014. Towards OPAM 1.2 After a lot of discussions and work on OPAM itself, we are now getting to a clear workflow for OCaml developpers and packagers: the preliminary document for OPAM 1.2 is available here. The idea is that you...

16 Jul 2014

OCamlPro

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