The OCaml Planet

This presentation gives an overview of the Ocsigen framework, which is used in particular to develop the Be Sport social network. Ocsigen is a set a tools to develop Web sites and applications. Amongst other things, it contains js_of_ocaml, a comp...

Starting off isn't always easy. Here's my experience at the beginning.

For starters, here's a little tour of our amazing community.

Imagine you have a brand-new coffee machine. One morning, you traipse excitedly down the stairs only to discover that, alas, your appliance…

This post explores the concepts of functional programming, including immutability, pure functions, higher-order functions, recursion, and more. It also delves into the history of functional programming and introduces Lambda Calculus. If you're new to functional programming or want to deepen your understanding, this post is for you.

Effective documentation is a cornerstone of software development. It helps developers understand how to use a language, its libraries, and…

Lightweight asynchronous programming (using futures, goroutines or green threads) has been widely adopted to organize programs with many concurrent tasks, more than are traditionally feasible with thread-per-task models of concurrency. With the...

This video introduces how to make and use local parameters in OCaml. As demonstrated in the video, a local parameter to a function is not allowed to be stored or returned. Using local parameters can allow us to allocate less garbage-collected memory, as later videos will demonstrate. View instructions to get the compiler I use in this video: https://github.com/janestreet/opam-repository/tree/with-extensions