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ocgtk development update: June 2026

Development update for ocgtk (a set of GTK4 bindings for OCaml), including upcoming support for signals and interfaces, expanded GLib type coverage, and packaging improvements to support other operating systems.

10 Jun 2026

Chris Armstrong

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Emulating inheritance without classes

The O in OCaml is for its object-oriented extension, but I needed a way to emulate the constraints of inheritance without it. This raised some interesting design questions about how to do it using only the core ML language.

13 May 2026

Chris Armstrong

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Tackling multiple namespaces in ocgtk

Even though I was focussed only on generating GTK bindings for OCaml, I still had to consider all the other libraries it depends on.

01 May 2026

Chris Armstrong

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ocgtk preview1 now on opam

ocgtk, a set of GTK4 bindings for OCaml, is now available on opam as preview1 release

21 Apr 2026

Chris Armstrong

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Introducing ocgtk: GTK4 bindings for OCaml

Introducing ocgtk, a new set of GTK4 bindings for OCaml generated from GObject Introspection data.

12 Apr 2026

Chris Armstrong

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