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The official OCaml website.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

The official OCaml website.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-03-17 19:00:01 UTC to 2015-07-16 22:47:30 UTC.

0122014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 20142014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsNov 20142014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2015

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 20142014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20142014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20142014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20142014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20142014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20142014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20142014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20142014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20142014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Dec 20142014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20152015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20152015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20152015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20152015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20152015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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amirmc·Oct 26, 2014
Nope, none of what you describe equates to 'complexity', there just happens to be more 'stuff' (unless you consider other, more popular languages with even more tools/libraries to be even more complex, in which case we have different viewpoints on what that word means in this context). Sure, not everything is in opam and that can be quite frustrating but the improvements over the last few years have done a lot to reduce the pain that people experience (not increase it). Seriously, would you rather have the old ecosystem back? I know a large number of devs who would be quite hostile to that idea. The standard library question isn't new and has been going on for some time but the options now are substantially better then they ever have been. Ask around and get feedback from others on what might suit your needs best. Until the community natu
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rally converges on something, this is just how it is. > "And unfortunately, it didn't work on my particular mac with homebrew." So what went wrong? The instructions for homebrew are two lines and my experience here was flawless. The slew of instructions you point at are largely for Linux distros and most of those are also only a few lines. Were you trying any of these? It's clear that the install page you point to needs work (who still uses fink?) but in most cases it's just a time-consuming process, rather than a difficult one (i.e you just sit there while things compile). If something goes wrong, then reporting it on the list [1] or issue tracker [2] will help others to fix it. [1] https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list [2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues
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