Mirage, new OCaml-based operating system for the cloud

By Vasudev Ram

The same post mentioned in my previous post about OCaml being used at Jane Street, Citrix and Facebook, also says that a new operating system called Mirage, meant mainly for the cloud, is being developed using OCaml. Mirage is an exokernel.

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OCaml used at Jane Street, Citrix and Facebook

By Vasudev Ram

This post, Announcing the OCaml Labs project, says that the OCaml language is used at Jane Street, Citrix and Facebook, among other places.

Reddit thread about the OCaml Labs announcement.




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Try OCaml in the browser - with a guided tutorial

OCaml is a programming language developed at INRIA, a French national research institute for computer science and allied areas.

Here is the Wikipedia page about OCaml.

Try OCaml is a site that lets you try out OCaml in the browser, using a step-by-step guided tutorial. The Try OCaml site is by OCamlPro.com, a company that supports OCaml and has ties to the OCaml group at INRIA.

Their site has a page with a section titled Why OCaml, which gives some reasons for using OCaml.

OCaml is used by a UK-based company called Coherent Graphics. I had come across them a while ago when checking out various PDF processing libraries. Their CamlPDF is a free PDF processing library written in OCaml. But it also is the basis for PDF library support in multiple other languages. From their site:

[ This is CamlPDF, an OCaml library for reading, writing and manipulating Adobe portable document files.

CamlPDF consists of a set of low level modules for representing, reading and writing the basic structure of PDF, together with an initial attempt at a higher level API.

CamlPDF is released under a BSD licence with special exceptions. See the LICENCE file in the source for details.

CamlPDF forms the basis of our PDF Command-line Toolkit and .NET PDF Toolkit, our PDF Editor for Mac OS X and the PDF import for a major commercial vector graphics package. ]

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