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Blog on camlcity.org
Personal blog · blog.camlcity.org/blogprogramming
Blog on camlcity.org is a personal blog at blog.camlcity.org about programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its OCaml writing, including the OMake series, a comparison of OCaml and Standard ML, and posts on the language. Comments discuss OCaml's evolution and parallel programming libraries.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> What do you find most useful about talking to core OCaml devs? If you were developing in Java, do you think you would see a similar benefit from talking to core Java devs? OCaml (and Java, and Python, and any other "old" language) evolves in small steps to avoid breaking existing code. A forum like this allows language developers making those design decisions to check them with big users, as well as to gather the…
Comment linking /blog/bytes1.html
on “Why We Use OCaml”Submitted OMake on Steroids, Part 1 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThe netmulticore library [1,2] worked well for me. The style there is to spawn worker processes and pass messages between them. I'm not sure how popular that library got but that style of programming seems to be pretty popular among OCaml users who need it. Many projects use something lighter-weight or just roll their own (e.g. Parallel in Jane Street's ocaml-core looks pretty good [3]). I certainly wouldn't mind if…
Comment linking /blog/multicore1.html
on “Comparing OCaml and Standard ML”Submitted OCaml packaging system GODI is shutting down as a story · 1 points
HN discussionnext part: http://blog.camlcity.org/blog/omake2.html
Comment linking /blog/omake2.html
on “OMake on Steroids, Part 1”