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Vibespiling JustHTML from Python to pure OCaml, achieving 100% pass rate on the browser html5lib test suite using agentic workflows.
Welcome to all Camleers We are back with another practical walkthrough for the newcomers of the OCaml ecosystem. We understand from the feedback we have gathered over the years that getting started with the OCaml Distribution can sometimes be perceived as challenging at first. That's why we keep it ...
Since presenting Relocatable OCaml at OCaml Dev Meeting, I have been playing whac-a-mole with our CI systems, working towards getting finalised branches for the work ready for upstreaming. Eventually, it got to me, and I realised it was possibly time to come up with a better test environment for these changes.
Some titles make more sense than others. One of my oldest contributions to OCaml was a complete overhaul of Unix.stat et al in ocaml/ocaml#462 which formed part of OCaml 4.03. As part of the work on msvs-detect in late 2015, I’d ended up with a Windows 7 VM which had every single version of Visual Studio back to Visual Studio 6.0. Visual Studio (and Visual C++ before that) has always included the source code for the C Runtime Library (CRT), and as a side-effect of having all these installed Visual Studios, I was able to construct a Git repository showing the evolution of the CRT code over each release (sadly, the licence doesn’t allow this to be pushed publicly). This was particularly useful for studying how the behaviour of the stat implementation had changed over time, particularly with reference to Windows Vista’s symlinks. Anyway, that particular bit of work left me with a habit of often reaching for the CRT whenever something weird’s happening, and that’s led naturally to a fairly detailed bug-fix - and outline for more bug-fixes - in OCaml.
THERE are various techniques and tools to do unit testing in OCaml. A small selection: Alcotest -...
In 2022, Multicore OCaml became reality. Programming on multiple threads brings new possibilities, but also new complexities. In order to…
Before resuming feature implementation in OCI*ML I thought I ought to tighten up the test suite a bit, so I have started on a make test target, including some utilities for generating large test da…
