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Surge in interest in OCaml
- Jon Harrop
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Date: | 2008-04-02 (00:04) |
From: | Jon Harrop <jon@f...> |
Subject: | Surge in interest in OCaml |
For anyone who is interested: we were having a quiet period with regard to our OCaml products lately until the OCaml Journal published an article on LLVM last month. This seems to have sparked a lot of interest in OCaml from that community because this is a great choice of language for many of the people trying to write compiler front-ends that use LLVM. There are other aspects of commonality between OCaml and LLVM interest at the moment. I see the topic of C++ parsers arose again here recently (Olmar/Elsa). The LLVM guys are struggling to write C and C++ front-ends for LLVM but they appear to be doing everything from scratch in C/C++. I have been biting my lip trying not to say "Use OCaml!" on their mailing list but perhaps someone with relevant OCaml experience could provide them with a better starting point like a mini implementation? Finally, one of our customers can up with a great suggestion: that we list OCaml-related projects on our site that we believe would benefit the community. One of the first things I would like to list is the creation of a library that allows FFIs to be autogenerated at run-time using LLVM, thus obviating the need for C stubs. I think this would be tremendously useful. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e