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by vphantom 4y ago
That's exactly what version 5 brings: multicore is fully merged in now.
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by vphantom 5y ago
I think libraries like Lwt will be the ones to offer the level of abstraction which you're describing. I too would like to see the simplicity of goroutines make it into OCaml 5 ASAP.
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by vphantom 5y ago
On parentheses, this is one of the main reasons why I integrated ocamlformat with my editor: I write explicit parentheses around everything and I let the formatter remove the superfluous ones. No surprises or guesswork that way.
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A short history of ReScript (BuckleScript)(discuss.ocaml.org)
3 points by vphantom 6y ago|0 comments
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by vphantom 6y ago
There was http://www.ocamljava.org/ around 2015 but there wasn't enough interest to keep the project going. A fascinating project currently in development is Caramel, a BEAM VM (Erlang) back-end to the OCaml compiler:
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by vphantom 6y ago
I don't think he's a co-founder but he is the one who brought OCaml into that company. Started out as a means to do some quick demos and ended up being their language of choice.
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by vphantom 7y ago
FYI strings are now immutable in OCaml. It was a compiler option starting with 4.02 and it has become enabled by default since 4.06.
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by vphantom 7y ago
The problem with gloves only would be the lack of tactile feedback to tell your fingers that the key press has registered. I used a Datahand for several years and while it was very easy on fingers (the activation pressure was much less than
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by vphantom 7y ago
Luckily, they don't bring with them a lot of cognitive overhead for the developer, so their presence masks the expressiveness of OCaml in LOC stats IMHO. I use interface files to make public signatures explicit, abstract away some typ
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by vphantom 7y ago
No go for me on Firefox 59.0 / Debian 64bit. I even restarted Firefox but they're all still "Legacy Extensions". :(