EduardoRFS

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by EduardoRFS 5y ago
OCaml is really good at building in parallel. So even without that many files it can still compile using 32 threads. Making so that a project with 20k loc is less than a second in debug mode. And recompile time in native(debug) mode is almo
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by EduardoRFS 5y ago
OCaml is much faster than Go in the bytecode mode, as you have interfaces files which drastically simplify the typing process. The compiling pipeline of bytecode is basically typing -> lambda -> bytegen Bytegen is really close to what
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by EduardoRFS 6y ago
I have some tools that you can use to cross compile pretty easily, not a first class yet but it works, you can build generic toolchains quite easily, just a new `sysroot` with the compiler + some flags https://github.com/Edu
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by EduardoRFS 6y ago
There is no support to bitcode, but there is no major advantage to support it, so it doesn't seems to be worthy
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by EduardoRFS 6y ago
Most developers, there is a lot of places to get this information but if you look at the stackoverflow survey, which is a survey large enough to be relevant, you get some data around 25% of developers using Linux. We're talking about a
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by EduardoRFS 6y ago
Android isn't even on the official list of OS supported, recently I fixed the build system for Android, OCaml is just not a mobile language(yet)
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by EduardoRFS 6y ago
There was a previous PR where I got the overall patches needed, but almost everything was developed on the iOS + QEMU, at first I didn't had spare money to buy an used iPhone. The only feature developed on the real iPhone was the dynam
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by EduardoRFS 6y ago
I don't think that was the case for a long time on the tooling side, OCaml has a great support for ARM64 for a long time now, but Linux ARM64. But well most developers aren't actually using Linux. But a thing that is going to chan