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In my OCaml project, I’d like to abstract away the details of running containers into specific modules based on the OS. Currently, I have working container setups for Windows and Linux, and I’ve haphazardly peppered if Sys.win32 then where I need differentiation, but this is OCaml, so let us use functors!
While playing with OCaml I was surprised to learn there’s no built-in function the convert a string to a list of its characters. Admittedly, that’s not something you need very often, but it does come handy from time to time. There are many ways to implement such a function ourselves and the one I like the most makes use of List.init:
Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.1.3. This opam release consists of backported fixes: Fix opam init and opam init --reinit when the jobs variable has been set in the opamrc or the current config. (#5056) opam var no longer fails if ...
We are pleased to announce the release of a second release candidate for opam 2.0.0. This new version brings us very close to a final 2.0.0 release, and in addition to many fixes, features big performance enhancements over the RC1. Among the new features, we have squeezed in full sandboxing of packa...
After the opam build feature was announced followed a lot of discussions, mainly having to do with its interface, and misleading name. The base features it offered, though, were still widely asked for: a way to work directly with the project in the current directory, assuming it contains definitions...