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Psellos Blog
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Psellos Blog is a personal blog at psellos.com about programming and systems. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Compile OCaml for iOS”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Compile OCaml for iOS5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-04-16
- Code iOS Apps in OCaml2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-22
What Hacker News says?
Jeffrey Scofield has a OCaml cross-compiler for iOS [1], and a number of of example apps are available, including ones using OpenGL ES. The bridges connecting OCaml to iOS UI components are incomplete, so you might have to do a bit of work to support certain components, but the work would be reusable. Not difficult if you follow the example apps, but maybe tedious. I think the effort is worth it for what OCaml gives…
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on “OCamlEditor”- a0 · 2014-08-24
Submitted OCaml on iOS 7 Released as a story · 108 points
HN discussion There are a number of sample/demo apps here that can be used as a starting point: http://psellos.com/ocaml/ Each app has instructions on how to build from source, etc.
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on “OCaml on iOS 7 Released”Submitted OCaml 4.01 for iOS 8 as a story · 100 points
HN discussionOCaml is not my primary programming language, but I have been looking at it among many other options including all of the ones you mentioned. The module system of OCaml is very powerful, and a similar module system is not present in F#, or anything else besides some variants of StandardML as far as I know. I was able to accomplish many things using Functors that I have not been able to accomplish in any other langua…
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on “Caml Trading – Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street [video]”Submitted Code iOS Apps in OCaml as a story · 62 points
HN discussionJeff has been maintaining it since, he just released 4.02.3 which is the latest available compiler http://psellos.com/2016/01/2016.01.the-minor-drag.html with iOS 9.2. Not that bad I'd say, that's pretty much bleeding edge. I don't know about swift because I don't know how to compile swift into an object file. Swift is not worth the hassle for me right now. FWIW apparently it will be officially merged into the mainl…
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on “Opam-ios: an OCaml compiler for iOS via opam, with example server code”Submitted Compile OCaml for iOS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI can't find the time to learn a language for fun. I need to find a way to incorporate it into my daily routine. There just aren't enough hours in the day to play. Anyway, I've got a couple side projects, one of which is website in Go. How's OCaml for web development? I also saw oCaml for iOS but it didn't seem to be up to date: http://psellos.com/ocaml/compile-to-iphone.html
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on “OCaml Resources (2006)”Submitted Sliding Tile Puzzle, Self-Contained OCaml Webapp as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compile OCaml to Objective-C / iOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convert Linux ARM Assembly Code for iOS (2014) as a story · 1 points
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