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Retrofitting a build system into a compiler

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.

25 Sep 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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OCamlPro Highlights: April 2014

Here is a short report on some of our activities in April 2014, and a short analysis of OCaml evolution since its first release. OPAM Improvements We're still working on release 1.2. It was decided to include quite a few new features in this release, which delayed it a little bit since we want to be...

20 May 2014

OCamlPro

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Code layout of Fan (a metaprogramming tool for OCaml)

Fan is a metaprogramming tool for OCaml. I believe it would be an invaluable tool for the community when it’s production ready. If you are attracted by the power of Camlp4 while frustrated wi…

16 Sep 2013

Hong bo Zhang

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ocamljs 0.3

I am happy to announce version 0.3 of ocamljs. Ocamljs is a system for compiling OCaml to Javascript. It includes a Javascript back-end for ...

26 Aug 2010

Jake Donham

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OCamlbuild support in Chamo

The Chamo editor now includes some ocamlbuild support through the internal command "ocaml_build": An ocamlbuild command is proposed to the u...

30 Apr 2008

Cameleon news

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