Tools

OCaml Platform

Guiding Principles Users OCaml Platform Roadmap

The OCaml Platform

The OCaml Platform 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".

The Tools of the OCaml Platform

The individual OCaml Platform Tools go through a lifecycle from incubation to deprecation. Here is a list of all Platform Tools sorted by their lifecycle state.

Tools with a status of "active" or "sustain" are considered stable and mature. It is recommended to migrate away from "deprecating" platform tools in favor of supported alternatives, while "incubating" platform tools are under active development and may see substantial changes before they become ready for wider adoption.

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

The State of the OCaml Platform

OCaml Workshop 2020

State of the OCaml Platform 2020

Presented by

Anil Madhavapeddy

University of Cambridge