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Since presenting Relocatable OCaml at OCaml Dev Meeting, I have been playing whac-a-mole with our CI systems, working towards getting finalised branches for the work ready for upstreaming. Eventually, it got to me, and I realised it was possibly time to come up with a better test environment for these changes.

Several of my colleagues and I went to FOSDEM 2025 and met many functional programming enthusiasts, sparking great conversations for next year's FOSDEM.

OCaml Core Dev meeting at Inria yesterday. These are roughly biannual synchronous catchups which provide a chance to find out what others are up to, get feedback on any major ongoing work, and attempt to unblock some stalled PRs. Sometimes tempers get frayed, but not this time round…

Every programming language comes with some “batteries” included - mostly in the form of its standard library. That’s typically all of the functionality that’s available out-of-the-box, without the need to install additional libraries. (although the definition varies from language to language) Usually standard libraries are pretty similar, but I think that OCaml’s a bit “weird” and slightly surprising in some regards, so I decided to write down a few thoughts on it and how to make the best of it.

Announcing a new project transitioning the web development framework Ocsigen from Lwt to Eio and effects, creating new tools and workflows.