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emelletv #15 with Rudi Grinberg about OCaml, Dune, Opium and dev tools

Talking with Rudi Grinberg about OCaml, Opium and Dune Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/emelletv

02 Jan 2023

Emelle TV

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The Growth of the OCaml Distribution

We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gi...

02 Jan 2023

OCamlPro

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Learning OCaml in 2023

Software engineer into ReasonML and OCaml. Working on styled-ppx and UI stuff at Ahrefs. Co-host at emelle.tv

31 Dec 2022

sancho.dev

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Engineer Spotlight: Jules Aguillon

In celebration of the OCaml 5 release, we decided to interview a few of our talented engineers about OCaml. While it isn't a well-known…

29 Dec 2022

Tarides

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Love Rust? Then OCaml's New Eio Library is for You

We’ve come to expect a lot from the programming languages we use. We want the memory safety of Java, the performance of C/C++, and the…

27 Dec 2022

Tarides

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OCaml 5 Multicore Testing Tools

The new version of OCaml 5 is here! It brings the ability to program multicore applications and to maximise our usage of all the CPU cores…

22 Dec 2022

Tarides

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Advanced Merlin Features: Destruct and Construct

Merlin is one of the most important tools for OCaml users, but a lot of its advanced feature often remain unknown. For OCaml newcomers who…

21 Dec 2022

Tarides

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How Nomadic Labs Used Multicore Processing to Create a Faster Blockchain

The technology that makes blockchain possible is complex, cutting-edge, and fascinating. Balancing efficiency and security on a knife's edge…

20 Dec 2022

Tarides

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OCaml 5 With Multicore Support Is Here!

It's here! It's finally here! On Friday, 16 December 2022, the OCaml community announced the official release of Multicore OCaml! From the…

19 Dec 2022

Tarides

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