OCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as the latest progress report on OCaml tooling and the community push to improve the platform.
What it is
A one-hour OCaml Workshop 2020 talk on the state of the OCaml Platform, covering IDE support, next steps for the tooling and plans for 2020-2021.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec Shoop · 2021-03 · on “Multicore OCaml: Feb 2021 with new preprint on Effect Handlers”
dune is quite weird compared to many other build tools, but once you learn how it works it's actually quite simple. opam is a pain in the ass but it's definitely being improved steadily and I've had better experiences with it recently. janestreet core seems more stable now than it has in the past but there are occasionally still some breaking changes. They aren't hard to keep up with if you update with each core release though (only like ~1 for my project in the past year or so). There's also a community movement to work a lot more on the ocaml platform and I'm super excited for this work [1] to get through the pipeline! Especially promising is the work on replacing ocamldoc (which sucks) wi
Recommends yawaramin · 2020-11 · on “Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml”
Yes, it does. However a lot of it is driven by long-time ecosystem contributors and they generally work somewhat behind the scenes, presenting on the progress ~annually at conferences like ICFP. Here's the latest progress report, in case you're interested: [this video] Now this is not the same language/community improvement system that many popular projects nowadays use, but OCaml has been stewarded in its way for a few years now, and it's something the contributors feel is sustainable given the size of the project and the resources available. About Unicode specifically, there is of course support at the library level as you mentioned (the most well-known library is Camomile), but to try to justi
Cites ivg_t · 2020-08 · on “OCaml Workshop 2020 Online Conference is live now”
The workshop is hosted by the ICFP conference so you need to register there, which is probably too late. But all the videos are available online and you can post questions in the OP link to Discuss, we will try to forward it to the workshop and later post the Q&A session on our channel (so subscribe) [this video]