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Base Image Builder

The base image builder has a growing number of failed builds; it’s time to address these.

16 Jan 2026

Marc Elvers

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Reflections on ICFP 2025

I spent last week at ICFP 2025. A nice (if exhausting!) week, as ever. Amusingly, the most reflections were actually sparked by Yaron’s talk which was right at the end (you can see the talk itself on YouTube).

18 Oct 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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A first foray into agentic coding

I’ve been largely steering clear of the AI bandwagon up to now, mainly because the last thing I needed while working on Relocatable OCaml was to be trying to learn a new tool at the same time as finishing something which felt desperately late and which, at times, I myself didn’t fully understand! However, as the buzz of the announcement dies down, I had a first go at pointing Claude Code to the OCaml compiler codebase, and thought I’d add to the general noise of AI memoirs…

17 Sep 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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How TSan Makes OCaml Better: Data Races Caught and Fixed

Parallel programming opens up brand-new possibilities. Using multiple cores means that users can benefit from powerful OCaml features (like…

21 Aug 2024

Tarides

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OCaml 5 With Multicore Support Is Here!

It's here! It's finally here! On Friday, 16 December 2022, the OCaml community announced the official release of Multicore OCaml! From the…

19 Dec 2022

Tarides

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