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Re:C for high level programmers (slides) by vezzy-fnord on Sunday May 31, 2015 @06:29PM (#9635856)
command line utility development, writing a replacement to systemd

Those don't require direct use of C, necessarily - but rather some form of FFI to POSIX and the syscall interface. Hell, if one is writing a systemd replacement, I'd encourage use of OCaml. It'd spare you lots of boilerplate because you're writing relatively high level userspace logic, anyway.

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Re:C for high level programmers (slides) by pjmlp on Sunday May 31, 2015 @06:41PM (#9635896)
Yep!

Unix system programming in OCaml - https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/

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Re:C for high level programmers (slides) by charlesL on Sunday May 31, 2015 @06:50PM (#9635919)
Huh, I've never actually heard of using OCaml for system programming. Interesting!
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Re:C for high level programmers (slides) by danieldk on Monday June 01, 2015 @06:25AM (#9637629)
Red Hat's Richard Jones (who is also often commenting on Hacker News) does a lot of system programming in OCaml (mostly VM management-related I think):

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/tag/ocaml/

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