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Re:OCaml Multicore merged upstream by Zababa on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:26AM (#29877215)
What's next after this? There are a lot of different projects ongoing for OCaml (typed effects, modular explicits/implicits, all of the RFCs, flambda and flambda 2, and I'm probably forgetting a lot of them). However, while following the progress of OCaml Multicore was easy thanks to the monthly posts, it's a bit harder to know where the focus will be next. Is there something like a "state of OCaml" that's planned, or a roadmap?

Congratulations on the merge, and thank you for all the work that went into it!

Re:OCaml Multicore merged upstream by octachron on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:19PM (#29878092)
Few of those projects are still at the research stage (typed effects, modular implicits, unboxed types), with a handful of people working on them at most.

It is hard or even counter-productive to try to fit them on a roadmap.

The multicore project is(was?) a bit unusual from the point of view of OCaml development since it is a massive engineering effort with a focused team.

Nevertheless, I hope that we continue and extend the "OCaml compiler bimonthly" news to give more information about the ongoing work on the compiler.

Re:OCaml Multicore merged upstream by Zababa on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:29PM (#29879216)
Thank you for the explanation. I hope too you will continue the OCaml compiler bimonthly, it's always an interesting read, and it's nice to be up to date with what's happening.