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Re:Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) by rwmj on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:53AM (#45135373)
I'm at a conference at the moment so can't give a lengthy answer, but I'm the maintainer of virt-v2v, one large open source OCaml project (large if you include all the dependencies) which generates actual multi-millions in annual revenue, but is often overlooked in all this discussion of the OCaml ecosystem. Glad to talk by email some time.

[BTW we currently have open positions for two developers]

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Re:Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) by kcsrk on Friday September 05, 2025 @07:58AM (#45137532)
It was overlooked because I didn't know!

Great to hear about virt-v2v. I will reach out to you by email.

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Re:Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) by lambda_foo on Friday September 05, 2025 @08:01PM (#45145143)
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea about this project.

Could you share some more details about where this project is used? Links to those open positions for OCaml developers would be interesting too, not for myself :-)

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Re:Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) by rwmj on Saturday September 06, 2025 @03:16AM (#45147286)
For converting VMs that run on VMware to run on KVM. After Broadcom purchased VMware a couple of years ago & raised prices (in some cases up to 10x), lots and lots of businesses are desperate to leave VMware. The open positions can be found on the Red Hat website if you search roles for "virt-v2v".
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Re:Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) by yawaramin on Saturday September 06, 2025 @02:46PM (#45151845)
Found this one: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/details/Prin...

No mention of OCaml though.

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Re:Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) by rwmj on Sunday September 07, 2025 @09:14AM (#45157904)
Right, we don't mention it in the advert because doing so draws in a certain type of academic person that we don't want to hire. Also because the majority of the code is actually in other programming languages, and we can easily train up (eg.) an ace C coder in OCaml if we need to.
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Re:Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) by yawaramin on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @09:55PM (#45206773)
On a different note, I am curious about something–does RH still maintain createrepo/mergerepo? Ie https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c

I've been exploring converting them into OCaml as the C versions are very segfault-prone.

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