Articles by Ulysse Gérard

Explore articles by Ulysse Gérard, featuring deep insights into systems programming, distributed computing, and cutting-edge technology. Discover the author's unique perspective and technical expertise that contribute to innovation at Tarides.

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Wed, 12 Aug 2026

#community #open-source

An Overview of OCaml Release Readiness: How Does the OCaml Ecosystem Stay Up-to-Date with the Compiler?

Every new OCaml compiler release risks leaving the ecosystem's tools behind. Maintainers of ppxlib, Merlin, OCaml-LSP, Dune, OCamlFormat and odoc explain what it takes to be ready on day one.

Ulysse Gérard

Principal Software Engineer

Ali Caglayan

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Paul-Elliot Anglès d'Auriac

Senior Software Engineer

Patrick Ferris

Senior Software Engineer

Jules Aguillon

Senior Software Engineer

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Wed, 28 Aug 2024

#devtools #ocaml

Project-Wide Occurrences: A New Navigation Feature for OCaml 5.2 Users

With the release of merlin-lib 5.1-502 and associated ocaml-lsp-server, we brought a new, exciting feature to OCaml's editor tooling: project-wide occurrences. The traditional "occurrences" query in Merlin modes, named "Find All References" in LSP-based mode, was used to only return results in the a…

Ulysse Gérard

Principal Software Engineer

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Wed, 21 Dec 2022

#devtools #ocaml

Advanced Merlin Features: Destruct and Construct

Merlin is one of the most important tools for OCaml users, but a lot of its advanced feature often remain unknown. For OCaml newcomers who might not know, Merlin is the server software that provides intelligence to code editors when working on OCaml documents. It allows one to easily navigate the co…

Ulysse Gérard

Principal Software Engineer