Here is a rather lengthy write-up (in English) explaining why I chose #OCaml as my main programming language for my personal and professional projects!

xvw.lol/en/articles/...

I hope you find this interesting, and I welcome any feedback!

Super excited to have Chris Armstrong talking about OCaml and AWS at FP-SYD tonight.

Wonderful mushroom surprise in my pot plant this morning. Need to lookup what variety it is.

For you Linker and Solaris nerds, the classic Solaris Linking & ELF Blogs are available. Lots of interesting material.

www.linker-aliens.org

Hacking Emacs is so rewarding and deeply addictive. I’ve been experimenting with structured navigation using comobobulate and treesitter. Targeting OCaml and Haskell. www.masteringemacs.org/article/comb...

FP-SYD getting started on the topic of SAT solvers.

Of course FP-SYD functional programming group is on tonight. There’s the promise of a SAT talk and a lightning talk. RSVP on www.meetup.com/fp-syd/event...

Also spent some quality time with elisp this weekend improving my Emacs setup with tree-sitter and OCaml. The results are promising, using ocaml-ts-mode plus eglot and ocaml-eglot. I have all the usual LSP goodness plus tree-sitter based navigation built on combobulate.

Why do frame pointers matter for OCaml? I've written up my notes on bringing frame pointers to more platforms. It has been super useful combined with Instruments on macOS, to see exactly what is happening with OCaml programs.
lambdafoo.com/posts/2025-0...

Experimenting with OCaml and eBPF. Turns out the basics are there to do interesting things like function counts and GC timings. lambdafoo.com/posts/2025-0...

The curious thing about working on the OCaml compiler is the lag between features getting merged and released. Happily OCaml 5.3 is out and contains some useful performance and debugging improvements. Memory profiling is back with statmemprof, CPU profiling on MacOS works thanks to frame pointers.

Tonight at FP-SYD, we have an OCaml in Production talk by
Geoffrey Borough from Axons Talent.

Trying to finish up my work on enabling frame pointers for all OCaml architectures before the end of the year. Why? So we can have nice perf support in OCaml. Currently have amd64 and arm64. RiscV and s390x are in the works.

Dtrace 2024 conference stream is fantastic. Better OCaml support with the recent frame pointers work.

Trying out Bluesky. I’ll be posting things about my work in OCaml and other technical topics. Plus some light content about my hobbies like MTB, surfing and Lego.