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Chris Armstrong
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Chris Armstrong's personal blog at chrisarmstrong.dev covers programming and web. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “OCaml Cross Compilation: An Experiment”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Development and tech musings. I'm a full-stack developer working with serverless architecture on AWS with TypeScript and React
Most-linked posts?
- OCaml Cross Compilation: An Experiment3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-03
What Hacker News says?
Investigating tree-shaking in OCaml (tldr; there isn't any, but it's been discussed a lot over the past 8 years) https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/dead-code-elimination-d...
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)”Submitted OCaml Cross Compilation: An Experiment as a story · 8 points
HN discussionzig has a cross-compiler frontend (zig cc) which can be used as a drop-in replacement for a custom sysroot + binutils + gcc for several platforms. I've used it to build OCaml cross-compilers that only depend on zig itself ( https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/ocaml-cross-compilation... ). There are other projects that have used it in a similar way too. [1] https://actually.fyi/posts/zig-makes-rust-cross-compilation…
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on “Zig got a new ELF linker and it's fast”Submitted OCaml Cross-Compilation: An Experiment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis resonates. I spent a fair bit of time thinking about library design for an OCaml library that didn’t directly expose more complicated language features (like functors and first class modules) where they weren’t needed. (I presented on it recently: https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/icfp-wrapup-2025-10-18 )
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on “Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction”Submitted Retry, Timeout and Cancel with Fetch() as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm working on ocgtk, which are GTK4+ bindings for OCaml. My current focus is adding support for signals, amongst other things: https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/ocgtk-development-updat...
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)”Submitted Comments Considered Harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing Unused Code in OCaml as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What we didn't learn from the past as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What would make OCaml serverless ready? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Mismatch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observability: What to Instrument? as a story · 1 points
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