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Introducing the OCaml Local Mode | OCaml Unboxed

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

05 Jan 2024

Jane Street - OCaml Unboxed

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Parsing with Binary String Pattern Matching

If you've ever had to parse anything, (anything really), I want to show you a glimpse of what it could look like when you parse it binary string pattern matching in OCaml like you'd do on Erlang, Elixir, or Gleam.

31 Dec 2023

Practical OCaml

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Announcing the ORCHIDE Project: Powering Satellite Innovation

It has been a few months since we announced our new product for both older and newer models of satellites: SpaceOS. Since then, there have…

29 Dec 2023

Tarides

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OCaml Survey: Developers' Perception, Interest, and Perceived Barriers

Tarides is conducting a survey targeting non-OCaml programmers to learn their thoughts about this functional programming language and…

20 Dec 2023

Tarides

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OCaml: Memory Safety and Beyond

Your choice of programming language matters. A recent press release from the US National Security Agency (NSA), in tandem with the US…

14 Dec 2023

Tarides

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Maturing Learn-OCaml to version 1.0: Gateway to the OCaml World

From the very start OCamlPro has been trying to help ease the learning of the OCaml language. OCaml has been used around the world to teach about a variety of Computer Science domains, from algorithmic to calculus, or functional programming and compilation. The language had been long taught in Acade...

13 Dec 2023

OCamlPro

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