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Here is a quick hack. A few months ago, I advocated for pointer equality in OCaml (==) as a way to deal with fresh symbols in a toy compiler. Today, I’ll show another application of pointer e…
Docker is written in Go. virt-builder is written in OCaml. Why? (Or as someone at work asked me — apparently seriously — why did you write it in a language which only you can use?) Virt…
After a while staged as RC, we are proud to announce the final release of OPAM 1.1.0! Thanks again to those who have helped testing and fixing the last few issues. Important note The repository format has been improved with incompatible new features; to account for this, the new repository is now ho...
Here is a short report of our activities in September-October 2013. OCamlPro at OCaml’2013 in Boston We were very happy to participate to OCaml’2013, in Boston. The event was a great success, with a lot of interesting talks and many participants. It was a nice opportunity for us to present some ...
There is a new draft on my web page! It is called Tagless and Typeful Normalization by Evaluation using Generalized Algebraic Data Types, which is a mouthful, but only describes accurately the cool…
Owing to the print-on-demand process we're using, it's simple to update the book to fix the few errata which have been pointed out by kind readers since publication. The new text is now live on Amazon , the Kindle Store , and our website . To update the Kindle copy, go to "Manage
OPAM 1.1.0 is ready, and we are shipping a release candidate for packagers and all interested to try it out. This version features several bug-fixes over the September beta release, and quite a few stability and usability improvements. Thanks to all beta-testers who have taken the time to file repor...