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At Jane Street, we’ve been actively making improvements to OCaml for a long time. Over thelast few years, we’ve started to build some fairly ambitious extens...
Our PeerTube installation at watch.ocaml.org holds hundreds of videos we wouldn’t want to lose! It’s a VM hosted at Scaleway so the chances of a loss are pretty small, but having a second copy would give us extra reassurance. I’m going to use Borg Backup.
This morning, Anil proposed that having an opam-repository that didn’t have old versions of the packages that require patches to work with OxCaml would be good.
As @dra27 suggested, I first added support in ocurrent/ocaml-version. I went with the name flambda2, which matched the name in the opam package.
For a long time, we have struggled to match the performance and functionality of runc on Windows. Antonin wrote the Docker-based isolation for ocurrent/obuilder with PR#127, and I wrote machine-level isolation using QEMU PR#195. Sadly, the most obvious approach of using runhcs doesn’t work, see issue#2156.
A beginner's guide to functional programming with OCaml
In the week, Jon mentioned UTM, which uses Apple’s Hypervisor virtualisation framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon. It looked awesome, and the speed of virtualised macOS was fantastic. It also offers x86_64 emulation; we mused how well it would perform running Windows, but found it disappointing.
First entry detailing the setup of my OCaml static site generator