The OCaml 5.2 Release: Features and Fixes!

There has been a new release of OCaml! The 5.2 release brings several new features, along with improvements, optimisations, and bug fixes…

15 May 2024

Tarides

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Bye Opam, Hello Nix

Article about replacing opam with nix for a easier life

13 May 2024

Emil Privér

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How to Setup OCaml on Windows with WSL

The stable opam 2.2 and a fully Windows compatible ecosystem of OCaml libraries and tools are getting closer every month. That's extremely…

08 May 2024

Tarides

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Pitfalls with Tail Calls and Locals in OCaml | OCaml Unboxed

This is the seventh in a series about locals in OCaml. This episode explains the challenges around tail-call optimization and how to keep local variables from escaping their region. I introduce the [@nontail] annotation to prevent tail-call optimization, which is often needed when writing code with locals. Code used in this video: https://github.com/goldfirere/janestreet-videos/blob/main/locals/07-tails/local.ml View instructions to get the compiler I use in this video: https://github.com/janestreet/opam-repository/tree/with-extensions

07 May 2024

Jane Street - OCaml Unboxed

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Pitfalls with Tail Calls and Locals in OCaml | OCaml Unboxed

This is the seventh in a series about locals in OCaml. This episode explains the challenges around tail-call optimization and how to keep local variables from escaping their region. I introduce the [@nontail] annotation to prevent tail-call optimization, which is often needed when writing code with locals. Code used in this video: https://github.com/goldfirere/janestreet-videos/blob/main/locals/07-tails/local.ml View instructions to get the compiler I use in this video: https://github.com/janestreet/opam-repository/tree/with-extensions

07 May 2024

Jane Street - OCaml Unboxed

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Flambda2 Ep. 2: Loopifying Tail-Recursive Functions

Welcome to a new episode of The Flambda2 Snippets! Today's topic is Loopify, one of Flambda2's many optimisation algorithms which specifically deals with optimising both purely tail-recursive and/or functions annotated with the [@@loop] attribute in OCaml. A lazy explanation for its utility would be...

07 May 2024

OCamlPro

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Announcing DBCaml, Silo, Serde Postgres and a new driver for postgres

Announcing DBCaml, Silo, Serde Postgres and a new driver for postgres

03 May 2024

Emil Privér

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