TAtacos·Sep 23, 2015
In C++ vs. OCaml: Ray tracer comparison (2005)eatonphil
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owebl
OCaml, Meet Web.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2015 | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2015 | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 2015 | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2015 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesI am the author of the major web frameworks for ocaml [0]. On of the nicest things about OCaml is the identical system calls. I built my entire OWebl platform by reading through C servers.
On the other hand, Rust (like Erlang) reinvents and wraps a lot of these calls in ways that are not immediately obvious. (Or at least, not AS immediately obvious as they are in OCaml.)
This is such a tremendous aid because there are nearly limitless documents and examples of the Unix API.
[0] http://github.com/eatonphil/owebl
In OCaml 4.03 will, “if all goes well”, support multicoreOPAM Package:
https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/owebl/owebl.0.1/
Release Candidate:
https://github.com/eatonphil/owebl/archive/v0.1.tar.gz
In [dead]Show HN: OWebl Now Fully Supports Concurrent Requests
1 points · Open discussionAdded support for templating. Check it out:
https://github.com/eatonphil/owebl/blob/master/examples/temp...
In Show HN: OWebl – An OCaml Web FrameworkShow HN: OWebl (OCaml Web) Adds Templating Support
1 points · Open discussionShow HN: OWebl – An OCaml Web Framework
55 points · Open discussionThe state of OCaml documentation is not great... I have had such a pain finding documentation. Generally, the only source for it is the French university that created/promotes it [0]. But even their pages are often almost a decade old and I have frequently found errors in the documentation.
Overall, while OCaml is a truly beautiful language (and I do really enjoy writing in it[1]), it is really tough to get work done efficiently because so few resources seem to exist.
With that said, I discovered a mod_ocaml Apache module implementation[2] (that is really outdated and not very efficient) and moved it to github. (I am not the author, nor have I had time to work on it either.) But if there was any interest in reviving this, I'd certainly give it a go. This seems to be a potentially viable way to increase interest in server-side OCaml usage.