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If it ain’t broke, …

Someone was kind enough a few weeks ago to comment on Hacker News that “Opam on Windows is a masterpiece of engineering”. There’s certainly a lot which has to go on under the hood to create what I believe is the necessary baseline experience. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out.

01 Dec 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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Getting started with ATD and Melange

ATD is a project to create types and data structures that can be serialized to JSON. It is very convenient when communicating between …

12 Sep 2018

Ahrefs

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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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Packing and Functors

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 ...

10 Aug 2011

OCamlPro

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