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Verification for Dummies: SMT and Induction

Adrien Champion adrien.champion@ocamlpro.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. These posts broadly discusses induction as a formal verification technique, which here really means formal program verification. I will use concrete, runnabl...

14 Oct 2021

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SCoP Passed Phase 1 of the DAPSI Initiative!

In April, we announced that the DAPSI initiative accepted the proposal for our Secure-by-Design Communication Protocols (SCoP) project…

14 Oct 2021

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Learning OCaml: An Online Learning Centre for OCaml

Learn OCaml: An Online Learning Center for OCaml, by Benjamin Canou, Grégoire Henry, Çagdas Bozman and Fabrice Le Fessant. We present Learn OCaml, a Web application that packs a set of learning activities for people who want to learn OCaml. It ...

09 Oct 2021

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The State of the OCaml Platform

The State of the OCaml Platform: September 2016 by Louis Gesbert, on behalf of the OCaml Platform team

09 Oct 2021

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What's new in OCamls 4.03

What is new in OCaml 4.03? by Damien Doligez

08 Oct 2021

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Building a UI Framework with Ty Overby

Ty Overby is a programmer in Jane Street’s web platform group where he works on Bonsai, our OCaml library for building interactive browser-based UI. In this episode, Ty and Ron consider the functional approach to building user interfaces. They also discuss Ty’s programming roots in Neopets, what development features they crave on the web, the unfairly maligned CSS, and why Excel is “arguably the greatest programming language ever developed.” Some links to topics that came up in the discussion: Jane Street’s Bonsai library: https://opensource.janestreet.com/bonsai/ The 3D design system OpenSCAD: https://openscad.org/ Matt Keeter’s libfive design tools: https://libfive.com/ Try .NET in-browser repl: https://try.dot.net/ Jane Street’s Incr_dom library: https://opensource.janestreet.com/incr_dom/ The Elm Architecture “pattern for architecting interactive programs”: https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/ React JavaScript library: https://reactjs.org/ The Houdini proposal: https://houdini.glitch.me/ Svelte UI toolkit: https://svelte.dev/ You can find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at signalsandthreads.com.

06 Oct 2021

Jane Street - Signal & Threads

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Building a UI Framework with Ty Overby

Ty Overby is a programmer in Jane Street’s web platform group where he works on Bonsai, our OCaml library for building interactive browser-based UI. In this episode, Ty and Ron consider the functional approach to building user interfaces. They also discuss Ty’s programming roots in Neopets, what development features they crave on the web, the unfairly maligned CSS, and why Excel is “arguably the greatest programming language ever developed.” Some links to topics that came up in the discussion: Jane Street’s Bonsai library: https://opensource.janestreet.com/bonsai/ The 3D design system OpenSCAD: https://openscad.org/ Matt Keeter’s libfive design tools: https://libfive.com/ Try .NET in-browser repl: https://try.dot.net/ Jane Street’s Incr_dom library: https://opensource.janestreet.com/incr_dom/ The Elm Architecture “pattern for architecting interactive programs”: https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/ React JavaScript library: https://reactjs.org/ The Houdini proposal: https://houdini.glitch.me/ Svelte UI toolkit: https://svelte.dev/ You can find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at signalsandthreads.com.

06 Oct 2021

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The New Replaying Benchmark in Irmin

As mentioned in our Tezos Storage / Irmin Summer 2021 Update on the Tezos Agora forum, the Irmin team's goal has been to improve Irmin's…

04 Oct 2021

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Presenting Core

Presenting Core, by Yaron Minsky Core is Jane Street's alternative to the OCaml standard library. The need for an alternative to the standard library is clear: OCaml's standard library is well implemented, but it's narrow in scope, and somewh...

03 Oct 2021

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