Platform

Best Practices

Bootstrapping a Project Managing Dependencies With opam Installing a Specific Compiler Version Running Executables and Tests Creating Libraries Publishing a Package Configuring Your Editor Formatting Your Code Generating Documentation Running Commands in an opam Switch

OCaml Platform

Guiding Principles Users OCaml Platform Roadmap

The OCaml Platform

The OCaml Platform represents the best way for developers, both new and old, to write software in OCaml. It combines the core OCaml compiler with a coherent set of tools, documentation, libraries, and testing resources.

Detailed instructions to install OCaml and the Platform tools are available in "Installing OCaml".

OCaml Workshop 2020

State of the OCaml Platform 2020

Presented by

Anil Madhavapeddy

University of Cambridge

State of the OCaml Platform

Each platform element lives at a different point in the lifecycle of a Platform tool

Active

The work-horse tools that are used daily with strong backwards compatibility guarantees from the community.

Universal Toplevel for OCaml

A tool to ease contributions to Opam repositories

Standard library for PPX rewriters

Editor helper, provides completion, typing, and source browsing in Vim and Emacs

Fast, portable, and opinionated build system

A source-based OCaml package manager

LSP Server for OCaml

Auto-Formatter for OCaml Code

Documentation Generator for OCaml

Incubate

New tools that fill a gap in the ecosystem but are not quite ready for wide-scale release and adoption.

Release Dune packages in Opam

Executable Codeblocks Inside Markdown Files

Sustain

Tools that will not likely see any major feature added but can be used reliably even if not being actively developed.

A simple tool to indent OCaml programs

A library manager for OCaml

Deprecate

Tools that are gradually being phased out, with clear paths to better workflows.

Camlp4 is a system for writing extensible parsers for programming languages

Tooling for building OCaml libraries and applications

OCamlbuild is a build system with builtin rules to easily build most OCaml projects

Convert OCaml parsetrees between different versions