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There was a flurry of activity on ocaml-multicore/ocaml-uring this month leading to a release (ocaml/opam-repository#28604). ocaml-uring provides bindings to the Linux’s io_uring, which allows batching various syscalls to the kernel for it to execute out-of-order, and in parallel. Its principal use at the moment is for the high-performance Linux backend of Eio.

Over the weekend, I extended mtelvers/ocaml-box-diff to include the ability to upload files over 50MB. This is a more complex API which requires a call to https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/upload_sessions by posting JSON containing the name of the file, the folder ID and the file size. Box replies with various session endpoints which give the URIs to use to upload the parts and to commit the the file. Box also specifies the size of each part.

Announcing a new filesystem for MirageOS projects, designed to be used on satellites with SpaceOS, that also lets developers use Irmin with MirageOS!

One thing I’ve noticed on my journey to learn OCaml was that reading (text) files wasn’t as straightforward as with many other programming languages. To give you some point of reference - here’s how easy it is to do this in Ruby:

In February 2022, we released Dune 3.0. This updated version is the result of considerable development work over the previous six months…

We are pleased to announce the release of OCamlFormat (available on opam). There have been numerous changes since the last release, so here…

(now with highlighting!) Last time I complained that I couldn't find an easy way to share a source code archive that didn't involve signin...