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Updating Docker and Go

For some time, we have had issues on Ubuntu Noble when extracting tar files within Docker containers. See ocaml/infrastructure#121. This is only an issue on exotic architectures like RISCV and PPC64LE.

01 Apr 2025

Marc Elvers

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Playing with Cap’n Proto

Cap’n Proto has become a hot topic recently and while this is used for many OCaml-CI services, I spent some time creating a minimal application.

17 Mar 2025

Marc Elvers

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Flambda2 Ep. 3: Speculative Inlining

Welcome to a new episode of The Flambda2 Snippets! The F2S blog posts aim at gradually introducing the world to the inner-workings of a complex piece of software engineering: The Flambda2 Optimising Compiler for OCaml, a technical marvel born from a 10 year-long effort in Research & Development and ...

09 Aug 2024

OCamlPro

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Writing a Function Whose Argument is a Polymorphic Function in OCaml

In OCaml, it is not possible to write a function whose argument is a polymorphic function. Trying to write such a function results in the type-checker complaining back at you. The trick to be able to write such a function is to use records.

07 Aug 2022

Thomas Letan’s Blog

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What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition

It’s the end of another dev internship season, and this one markedsomething of a transition, since halfway through the season, NY-basedinterns were invited b...

09 Aug 2021

Jane Street Tech Blog

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A look at OCaml 4.08

Now that OCaml 4.08 has been released, let’s have a look at what wasaccomplished, with a particular focus on how our plans for4.08 fared. I’ll mostly focus o...

12 Jul 2019

Jane Street Tech Blog

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