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Feature Parity Series: Restoring the MSVC Port

Discover everything that went into bringing MSVC support to OCaml 5 including C11 atomics, bug reports, winpthreads, and CI updates.

23 Apr 2025

Tarides

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Outreachy December 2024 Demo

The OCaml community participated in the December 2024 round of [Outreachy internships](https://www.outreachy.org). One intern worked on a tool for diffing OCaml APIs. This meeting was an opportunity for our intern to present their work and for ...

17 Apr 2025

Watch OCaml

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Expanding Dune Package Management to the Rest of the Ecosystem

Explanation of our learnings from attempting to build all Dune packages in opam-repository using Dune package management.

11 Apr 2025

Tarides

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Learning OCaml: Module Aliases

OCaml is famous for allow you to do a lot of things like modules. Like really a lot! Advanced features like functors, aside, it’s really common to either alias module names to something shorter or localize open Module_name to a smaller scope:

06 Apr 2025

Bozhidar Batsov

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