Hacker News with Generative AI: OCaml

A better build system for OCaml (janestreet.com)
A “build system” is one of the most important tools in a developer’s toolbox. Roughly, it figures out how to create runnable programs from a bunch of different source files by calling out to the compiler, setting up and executing test suites, and so on. Because you interact with it daily, above all it has to be fast – but it also has to be flexible.

OCaml, Programming Languages, Software Development, Tools

355 points by gaws 22 days ago | 210 comments

Release of OCaml 5.3.0 (ocaml.org)
We have the pleasure of celebrating Inge Lehmann's birthday by announcing the release of OCaml version 5.2.0.

Programming Languages, New Releases, OCaml

18 points by art-w 43 days ago | 1 comments

K/Simple in OCaml (uwaterloo.ca)

OCaml, Programming Languages, Functional Programming

7 points by tosh 49 days ago | 1 comments

MirageOS on OCaml 5 (ocaml.org)

MirageOS, OCaml, Operating Systems, Programming Languages

10 points by pjmlp 57 days ago | 2 comments

8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023) (chshersh.com)
I’ve been using Haskell in production for 8 years. I’ve been using OCaml in production for 8 months.

Programming Languages, Haskell, OCaml

264 points by droideqa 81 days ago | 277 comments

OCaml Syntax Sucks (2016) (xahlee.info)
OCaml's let … = … in … is very confusing. When nested, you can't tell how it's nested.

Programming Languages, OCaml, Syntax, Software Development

121 points by Qem 94 days ago | 135 comments

Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again (moritzhamann.com)
For the last few months my Raspberry Pi 4 was happily running on my desk, tucked away next to the monitor. It's serving a small web app in golang on the internal network and tailscale. I've never noticed any latency problems with it, so it took me by surprise when I deployed some OCaml experiments on the Pi and observed a lot of HTTP connection timeouts and name resolution errors while fetching some URLs concurrently.

Networking, Raspberry Pi, Performance, Golang, OCaml

32 points by mrtz 136 days ago | 20 comments

Gleam Is Pragmatic (drewolson.org)
I’ve spent the past several years working with functional programming languages in my free time – primarily Haskell and OCaml. I love both languages but also find aspects of each frustrating.

Functional Programming, Programming Languages, Haskell, OCaml

250 points by crowdhailer 138 days ago | 174 comments

My First Experience with OCaml (pliutau.com)
Recently I’ve been motivated to learn more about functional programming and the name OCaml came up quite a few times. I have seen some praise about it from the people I follow on social media and decided to give it a try. I finally finished a small project in OCaml and would like to share my first impressions while the memory is still fresh.

Functional Programming, OCaml, Programming Languages, Personal Projects

16 points by pltvss 157 days ago | 4 comments

Frustrations with the OCaml ecosystem while developing a synthesizer library (gridbugs.org)

Programming, Software Development, OCaml, Music

66 points by stevebox 169 days ago | 27 comments

(OCaml) dune developer preview (twitter.com)

OCaml, Programming Languages, Tools

5 points by yawaramin 186 days ago | 3 comments

How the OCaml type checker works (2022) (okmij.org)

Programming, Type Theory, OCaml, Compilers

219 points by mooreds 187 days ago | 42 comments

Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml (2021) (okmij.org)