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Continuing the previous theme of dabbling with matters agentic. Previously, I’d quite assiduously kept my fingers away from files. This time, I wanted to try something exploratory, switching to the agent for things I was actively stuck on.

Over the summer, Lucas Ma has been investigating ideas surrounding using effects in the OCaml compiler itself. He’s blogged some of his discoveries and adventures. The technical core of this work leads towards being able to use the OCaml compiler as a library on-demand to create a longer-lived “compiler service”. Of itself, that’s not at all revolutionary, but it is quite hard to do that with a 30 year old codebase that really was designed for single-shot separate compilation.

Can we all agree that witnessing syntax highlighting being absolutely off is probably the most annoying thing that can happen to anybody?

This blog post and the previous one about functor packs covers two RFCs currently developed by OCamlPro and Jane Street. We previously introduced functor packs, a new feature adding the possiblity to compile packs as functors, allowing the user to implement functors as multiple source files or even ...

Often when writing a new module, I want to write the interface first and savethe implementation for later. This lets me use the module as a black box,extendi...

We have recently worked on modifying the OCaml system to be able to pack a set of modules within a functor, parameterized on some signatures. This page presents this work, funded by Jane Street. All the patches on this page are provided for OCaml version 3.12.1. Packing Functors Installation of the ...