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API migration: compare transformed

In this talk we describe our experience in using an automatic API-migration strategy dedicated at changing the signatures of OCaml functions, using the Rotor refactoring tool for OCaml. We perform a case study on open source Jane Street libraries ...

28 Aug 2020

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Irmin v2

Irmin is an OCaml library for building distributed databases with the same design principles as Git. Existing Git users will find many familiar features: branching/merging, immutable causal history for all changes, and the ability to restore to an...

28 Aug 2020

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LexiFi Runtime Types

OCaml programmers make deliberate use of abstract data types for composing safe and reliable software systems. The OCaml compiler relies on the invariants imposed by the type system to produce efficient and compact runtime data representations. Be...

28 Aug 2020

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OCaml Under The Hood: SmartPy

SmartPy is a complete system to develop smart-contracts for the Tezos blockchain. It is an embedded EDSL in python to write contracts and their test scenarios. It includes an online IDE, a chain explorer, and a command-line interface. Python is us...

28 Aug 2020

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OCaml-CI : A Zero-Configuration CI

OCaml-CI is a CI service for OCaml projects. It uses metadata from the project’s opam and dune files to work out what to build, and uses caching to make builds fast. It automatically tests projects against multiple OCaml versions and OS platforms...

28 Aug 2020

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OCaml-CI : A Zero-Configuration CI

OCaml-CI1 is a CI service for OCaml projects. It uses metadata from the project’s opam and dune files to work out what to build, and uses caching to make builds fast. It automatically tests projects against multiple OCaml versions and OS platforms...

28 Aug 2020

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Parallelising your OCaml Code with Multicore OCaml

Slides, speaker notes and runnable examples mentioned in this talk are available at: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml2020-workshop-parallel With the availability of multicore variants of the recent OCaml versions (4.10 and 4.11) that main...

28 Aug 2020

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State of the OCaml Platform 2020

This talk covers: - Integrated Development Environments - Next Steps for the OCaml Platform - Plans for 2020-2021

28 Aug 2020

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The ImpFS filesystem

This proposal describes a presentation to be given at the OCaml’20 workshop. The presentation will cover a new OCaml filesystem, ImpFS, and the related libraries. The filesystem makes use of a B-tree library presented at OCaml’17, and a key-value ...

28 Aug 2020

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The final pieces of the OCaml documentation puzzle

Rendering OCaml document is widely known as a very difficult task: The ever-evolving OCaml module system is extremely rich and can include complex set of inter-dependencies that are both difficult to compute and to render in a concise document. It...

28 Aug 2020

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