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My Experience With Tarides at ICFP 2023!

ICFP 2024 will be upon us sooner than you might think! The call for papers closes on the 28th of February, and I wish everyone submitting…

21 Feb 2024

Tarides

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Concepts of Functional Programming

This post explores the concepts of functional programming, including immutability, pure functions, higher-order functions, recursion, and more. It also delves into the history of functional programming and introduces Lambda Calculus. If you're new to functional programming or want to deepen your understanding, this post is for you.

16 Jan 2024

Emil Privér

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OCaml Survey: Developers' Perception, Interest, and Perceived Barriers

Tarides is conducting a survey targeting non-OCaml programmers to learn their thoughts about this functional programming language and…

20 Dec 2023

Tarides

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OCaml: Memory Safety and Beyond

Your choice of programming language matters. A recent press release from the US National Security Agency (NSA), in tandem with the US…

14 Dec 2023

Tarides

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Maturing Learn-OCaml to version 1.0: Gateway to the OCaml World

From the very start OCamlPro has been trying to help ease the learning of the OCaml language. OCaml has been used around the world to teach about a variety of Computer Science domains, from algorithmic to calculus, or functional programming and compilation. The language had been long taught in Acade...

13 Dec 2023

OCamlPro

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Unix Module Considered Harmful

Recently I was working on a socket pool for a new scheduler for OCaml 5 (multicore baby!) and I ran into a strange issue. This new socket pool works by spinning up a series of lightweight processes to accept connections. Every one of those will wait for a client to

29 Nov 2023

Practical OCaml

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Tutorial: How to Port Lwt Applications to Eio

Thomas Leonard and Jonathan Ludlam hosted a tutorial on porting Lwt applications to OCaml 5 and Eio at arguably the world's largest…

27 Sep 2023

Tarides

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A Year of SpaceOS: Showing the World the Benefits of OCaml

I have had the pleasure of attending some great conferences over the past year, where I have presented some of the latest and most exciting…

20 Sep 2023

Tarides

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The State of the Art in Functional Programming: Tarides at ICFP 2023

ICFP 2023 The 28th ACM Sigplan International Conference on Functional Programming is taking place in Seattle as I’m typing. This is the…

08 Sep 2023

Tarides

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