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Performance Pitfalls: Tales From a Python/OCaml Codebase Emma Jin (Semgrep) ABSTRACT Semgrep is a tool that enables developers to search their code for security vulnerabilities, built with an OCaml engine and a Python frontend. This has c...
Generating Static Websites the Functional Programming Way Xavier Van de Woestyne (Tarides) ABSTRACT Static site generators like Jekyll, Zola, and Hugo are effective, but fall short for complex sites like personal encyclopedias, wikis, or ...
From OCaml 4 to 5 and from Parmap to Effects: A legacy code transition story SPEAKERS Nathan Taylor (Semgrep) Nat Mote (Semgrep) ABSTRACT OCaml 5's support for shared memory parallelism and effects-based concurrency opens up new ways...
The OCaml community participated in the May 2025 round of Outreachy internships. Two interns worked on a range of projects including [Claudius](https://github.com/claudiusFX/claudius) and [Dune](https://github.com/ocaml/dune). This meeting was ...
The OCaml community participated in the December 2024 round of [Outreachy internships](https://www.outreachy.org). One intern worked on a tool for diffing OCaml APIs. This meeting was an opportunity for our intern to present their work and for ...
Antonio Monteiro's FUN OCaml 2024 talk recording! Overview by Antonio: Melange is a new compiler for OCaml targeting JavaScript. Melange codebases integrate with the OCaml Platform: install from OPAM, build with Dune, preprocess with `ppxl...
Patrick Ferris's FUN OCaml 2024 talk recording! Overview by Patrick: We present the good and the bad of building a dataflow engine in OCaml. The engine underpins a complex ecological analysis of avoided deforestation projects in tropical moi...
Eduardo Rafael's FUN OCaml 2024 talk recording! Overview by Eduardo: Traditionally GADT's are used for lightweight tasks as the code complexity increases quite. I will be arguing that this is mostly a lack of common "design patterns" and m...
Sudha's FUN OCaml 2024 talk recording! Overview by Sudha: In a first, OCaml 5.0 shipped with native support for parallelism and concurrency. This was a multi-year effort by the Multicore team and the OCaml development team that culminated in...
Michael Dales's FUN OCaml 2024 talk recording! Overview by Michael: Each year the demo community run Tiny Code Xmas - using fantasy consoles like TIC-80 and PICO-8 to teach people to do retro graphics effects and size coding. But I didn't ...
