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What's next after this? There are a lot of different projects ongoing for OCaml (typed effects, modular explicits/implicits, all of the RFCs, flambda and flambd
by Zababa 5y ago
What's next after this? There are a lot of different projects ongoing for OCaml (typed effects, modular explicits/implicits, all of the RFCs, flambda and flambda 2, and I'm probably forgetting a lot of them). However, while following the progress of OCaml Multicore was easy thanks to the monthly posts, it's a bit harder to know where the focus will be next. Is there something like a "state of OCaml" that's planned, or a roadmap?
Congratulations on the merge, and thank you for all the work that went into it!
- octachron 5y agoFew of those projects are still at the research stage (typed effects, modular implicits, unboxed types), with a handful of people working on them at most. It is hard or even counter-productive to try to fit them on a roadmap. The multicore project is(was?) a bit unusual from the point of view of OCaml development since it is a massive engineering effort with a focused team. Nevertheless, I hope that we continue and extend the "OCaml compiler bimonthly" news to give more information about the ongoing work on the compiler.
- Zababa 5y agoThank you for the explanation. I hope too you will continue the OCaml compiler bimonthly, it's always an interesting read, and it's nice to be up to date with what's happening.