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Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of August 02 to 09, 2016.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2016-08/msg00016.html
Deep in this thread, Hendrik Boom asked and Jeremy Yallop replied:
> There's soomething I've been wondering about. OCaml keeps a minimum
> of type information at run-time -- one bit in each machine word tells
> whether it's a pointer or not. Is OCaml's intermediate code stable
> enough that it could be used as intermediate code for another
> language, and compiled further using the usual OCaml toolchain?
That's the goal of the malfunction project:
https://github.com/stedolan/malfunction
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2016-08/msg00018.html
Hongbo Zhang announced:
We are glad to announce the beta release of OCaml-Fiddle
(https://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/js-demo/), where you can write OCaml
snippet, run it in the browser and share with other people (by share button).
It also accept gist id in the format:
https://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/js-demo/?gist=gist_id
It is powered by BuckleScript and JSOO
Here are links from many OCaml blogs aggregated at OCaml Planet,
http://ocaml.org/community/planet/.
Hask is not a category
http://math.andrej.com/2016/08/06/hask-is-not-a-category/
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