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If someone had told me a few months ago I’d be playing with .NET again after a 15+ years hiatus I probably would have laughed at this.1 Early on in my career I played with .NET and Java, and even though .NET had done some things better than Java (as it had the opportunity to learn from some early Java mistakes), I quickly settled on Java as it was a truly portable environment. I had some C# courses in the university and I wrote my bachelor’s thesis in C#. It was a rewrite of Arch Linux’s pacman, running on Mono. This was way back in 2007. ↩

Several of my colleagues and I went to FOSDEM 2025 and met many functional programming enthusiasts, sparking great conversations for next year's FOSDEM.

OCaml Core Dev meeting at Inria yesterday. These are roughly biannual synchronous catchups which provide a chance to find out what others are up to, get feedback on any major ongoing work, and attempt to unblock some stalled PRs. Sometimes tempers get frayed, but not this time round…

CI workers spring and summer run FreeBSD and need to be updated.

Given a list of packages and their dependencies, what order should those packages be installed in?

Following my post on discuss.ocaml.org, I have created a new release of ocurrent/ocaml-version that moves the minimum version of OCaml, considered as recent, from 4.02 to 4.08.

After the Heathrow substation electrical fire, I found myself in Manchester with a long train ride ahead. Checking on Real Time Trains for the schedule I noticed that they had an API. With time to spare, I registered for an account and downloaded the sample code from ocaml-cohttp.