OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor

Re:OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor by thosakwe on Friday March 29, 2019 @06:24PM (#19526169)

I’m a huge OCaml fan, but really it lacks a lot of things that you get out of the box with the runtimes of other languages. Multi core support is the most obvious one.

It’s definitely great for things like compilers, though. But I wouldn’t necessarily use it for a Web server.

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Re:OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor by kcsrk on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:04PM (#19527148)

We're working on it. You can install and play around with Multicore compiler today though the wider library ecosystem is yet to catch up. https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore

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Re:OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor by yawaramin on Friday March 29, 2019 @08:55PM (#19526857)

Multicore support is imho nowhere near OCaml's top problem :-) that would probably be a toolchain that lends itself to easy reproducible package management. But we're getting there.

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Re:OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor by cedricbonhomme on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:29PM (#19526476)

It's even great to draw nice fractals: https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/iterated-function-systems ;-)

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Re:OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor by pjmlp on Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:59AM (#19528023)

Not everything needs to be usable for a Web server. I also wouldn't use C or C++ for anything directly plugged into the network. Morris worm proved what happens 30 years ago.

Besides, there are also multiple processes as possible solution.

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