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OCaml Weekly News, 06 Oct 2026

tinybox: 150 classic games (Pong to Quake) and Apps, in OCaml, and moreIX, a full OS (kernel, toolchain, vcs, ...) in OCamlMichel Mauny, 1959-2026dream-html 4.0.0hegel-ocaml 0.25.0 - concurrent stateful property-based testingTutorial on GADTsOCaml Compiler Implemented in C++: It's Not Just Faster—It Also Increases TrustConf.funcp.org is a scam OCaml conferenceVaast 0.0.0 + Design discussiona2a SDK in OCaml

06 Oct 2026

Caml Weekly News

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My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml

Building httpz, a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser with zero heap allocation using OxCaml's unboxed types, local allocations, and mutable local variables.

01 Feb 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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open Core

On 16 December 2000, a young @dra1 stepped out on to the stage of St Martin-in-the-Fields making what would be the first of many performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s great Mass in B minor. On 16 November last year, just under 25 years later, a slightly greyer @dra27 stepped out on the stage of King’s Hall at Newcastle University for what, for now at least2, would be his last performance of this great work3. As I write this in the 9 hour window of unemployment between finishing at the University of Cambridge and Tarides and commuting down to 2½ Devonshire Square to start at Jane Street, it’s a new year and a change of course. the “27” wouldn’t be allocated until the next October ↩ never say never… ↩ I’ve never recorded the work, although I recorded Ach, bleibe doch from Himmelfahrtsoratorium BWV 11 with Musik Podium Stuttgart ten years ago, which is one of the source arias for the famous Agnus Dei of the mass ↩

19 Jan 2026

David Allsopp's Blog

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AoAH Day 19: Zulip bot framework to bring Vicuna the friendly camel back

Building an OCaml Zulip bot framework with functional handlers, and pivoting from TOML to INI codecs for Python configparser compatibility

19 Dec 2025

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Retrofitting a build system into a compiler

Over the summer, Lucas Ma has been investigating ideas surrounding using effects in the OCaml compiler itself. He’s blogged some of his discoveries and adventures. The technical core of this work leads towards being able to use the OCaml compiler as a library on-demand to create a longer-lived “compiler service”. Of itself, that’s not at all revolutionary, but it is quite hard to do that with a 30 year old codebase that really was designed for single-shot separate compilation.

25 Sep 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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