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Feature Parity Series: Compaction is Back!

Compaction is a feature that rearranges OCaml values in memory to free up space, which can then be returned to the operating system. In the…

11 Sep 2024

Tarides

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Outreachy May 2024 Demo

The OCaml community participated in the May 2024 round of [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/) internships. Three interns worked on a range of projects including tools to diff OCaml APIs, more accessible diffing tools and running OCaml exercise...

07 Sep 2024

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Frustrating Interactions with the OCaml Ecosystem while developing a Synthesizer Library

This post is about some frustrating experiences I had while developing my first non-trivial OCaml project - an audio synthesizer library. I generally enjoy programming in OCaml but I often find its development tools to be counter-intuitive in their UX and surprising-in-a-bad-way in their behaviour.

05 Sep 2024

Gridbugs

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Easy Debugging for OCaml With LLDB

If you’re just getting started with OCaml, you may be wondering how to effectively debug your code when things go wrong. Fortunately, OCaml…

05 Sep 2024

Tarides

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Getting Specific: Announcing the Gospel and Ortac Projects

Part of the benefit of open-source development is the opportunity to collaborate on projects across traditional organisational boundaries…

03 Sep 2024

Tarides

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