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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
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
How to tag your opam packages for better searchability
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.
Building static binaries can come in handy. Most notably, when the time comes to distribute executables. Fortunately, building static binaries from OCaml projects can be achieved pretty easily, when you know what you are doing.
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…