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Do you love dev tools? Come work at Jane Street.
In the last few years, we’ve spent more and more effort working on developertools, to the point where we now have a tools-and-compilers group devoted to thea...
08 Aug 2016
Let syntax, and why you should use it
Earlier this year, we createda ppx_let, a PPX rewriter thatintroduces a syntax for working with monadic and applicative libraries likeCommand, Async, Result ...
06 Jun 2016
ppx_core: context-free rewriters for better semantics and faster compilation
At Jane Street, we have always been heavy users of pre-processors, first withcamlp4 and now ppx. Pre-processing makes the infrastructure a bit more complex,b...
05 May 2016
Seven Implementations of Incremental
We finally got a decent recording of one of my favorite talks. This one is aboutour Incremental library (which Iwrote about here), and in particular about th...
03 Mar 2016
OCaml 4.03: Everything else
In my previous post I wrote about Flambda, which is the singlebiggest feature coming to OCaml in this release. In this post, I’ll review theother features of...
03 Mar 2016
A better inliner for OCaml, and why it matters
OCaml 4.03 is branched and a first release candidate is imminent, so it seemslike a good time to take stock of what’s coming.
02 Feb 2016
Self Adjusting DOM and Diffable Data
In my last post, I gave some simple examples showing howyou could useself adjusting computations,or SAC, as embodied by our Incremental library, toincrementa...
02 Feb 2016
Self Adjusting DOM
I’ve been thinking recently about how tostructure dynamic web applications, and in particular about the role thatincremental computation should play.
02 Feb 2016
Incremental computation and the web
I’ve recently been thinking about the world of JavaScript and web applications.That’s odd for me, since I know almost nothing about the web. Indeed, JaneStre...
01 Jan 2016
Why OCaml?
01 Jan 2016
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News
opam 2.1.2 release
Release of opam 2.1.2
12 Dec 2021
OCaml Multicore - December 2021 and the Big PR
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
12 Dec 2021
opam releases: 2.0.10, 2.1.1, & opam depext 1.2!
Release announcement for opam 2.0.10, opam 2.1.1 and opam depext 1.2
11 Nov 2021
OCaml Multicore - November 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
11 Nov 2021
OCaml Compiler - October 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
10 Oct 2021
OCaml Multicore - October 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
10 Oct 2021
OCaml Compiler - June-September 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
09 Sep 2021
OCaml Multicore - September 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
09 Sep 2021
opam 2.1.0 is released!
Release announcement for opam 2.1.0
08 Aug 2021
opam 2.0.9 release
Release announcement for OPAM 2.0.9
08 Aug 2021
OCaml Multicore - August 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
08 Aug 2021
OCaml Multicore - July 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
07 Jul 2021
opam 2.1.0~rc2 released
Release announcement for opam 2.1.0~rv2
06 Jun 2021
OCaml Multicore - June 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
06 Jun 2021
OCaml Compiler - May 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
05 May 2021
OCaml Multicore - May 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
05 May 2021
OCaml Compiler - before May 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
04 Apr 2021
OCaml Multicore - April 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
04 Apr 2021
OCaml Multicore - March 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
03 Mar 2021
opam 2.1.0~beta4 released
Release announcement for opam 2.1.0~beta4
02 Feb 2021