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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

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Ali Caglayan

PAD

Paul-Elliot Anglès d'Auriac

Senior Software Engineer

Patrick Ferris

Senior Software Engineer

Jules Aguillon

Senior Software Engineer

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Tue, 23 Jun 2026

#community #ocaml #open-source

OCaml 5.5 Summary: What's New in the Latest OCaml Update

What's new in OCaml's latest 5.5 update? New features, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

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Isabella Salenius

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Thu, 04 Dec 2025

#community #open-source

ICFP 2025: Looking Back at the Biggest Functional Programming Conference of the Year

Check out our summary of everything OCaml at ICFP 2025, including insights from the Tarides engineers who attended!

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Isabella Salenius

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Fri, 10 Oct 2025

#community #ocaml

OCaml 5.4 Release: New Features, Fixes, and More!

An overview of the OCaml 5.4 update highlighting new features and bug fixes!

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Isabella Salenius

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Fri, 25 Jul 2025

#community #open-source

Add Your Own Recipes to the OCaml Cookbook!

The OCaml Cookbook is open to new contributions! This post gives you an overview of the feature and how to add your own recipes.

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 09 Jul 2025

#community #ocaml #open-source

Introducing Jane Street's OxCaml Branch!

An overview of Jane Street's OxCaml branch introducing new extensions to OCaml, and how Tarides is supporting the project.

KC Sivaramakrishnan

CTO

Cuihtlauac Alvarado

Senior Software Engineer

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 18 Jun 2025

#community #devtools

Feature Parity Series: Improving Developer Tooling on macOS

Discover the work that went into improving OCaml debugging for macOS including frame pointers, CFI fixes and CI improvements.

Tim McGilchrist

Principal Software Engineer

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 23 Apr 2025

#community #open-source

Feature Parity Series: Restoring the MSVC Port

Discover everything that went into bringing MSVC support to OCaml 5 including C11 atomics, bug reports, winpthreads, and CI updates.

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Fri, 28 Mar 2025

#community #functional programming #open-source

FOSDEM 2025: Report from the Friendly Functional Languages BOF Room

Several of my colleagues and I went to FOSDEM 2025 and met many functional programming enthusiasts, sparking great conversations for next year's FOSDEM.

Sabine Schmaltz

Principal Software Engineer

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

#community #ocaml

Tarides: 2024 in Review

In 2024, Tarides focused on making OCaml easier to adopt with better tools, expanded Windows support, and key ecosystem integrations like multicore and WebAssembly. Discover the highlights, including the first stable multicore release and the success of FUN OCaml.

Thomas Gazagnaire

CEO

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

#community #ocaml

OCaml 5.3: Features and Fixes!

OCaml 5.3 is released! This post gives you an overview of returning features, optimisations, and fixes as well as a taste for what's to come.

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 18 Dec 2024

#business #community #ocaml

Learn OCaml the Easy Way - Including the Hard Bits

Discover some of the best resources for learning OCaml, including tutorials, books, and events. Are you a larger group? Learn more about our OCaml courses too!

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 13 Nov 2024

#community #events #ocaml

The New Conference on the Block: What is FUN OCaml?

All the details from the new FUN OCaml conference held in Berlin in 2024, which hosted multiple talks, workshops, and social activities.

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 06 Nov 2024

#community #ocaml #open-source

Making OCaml Mainstream: Support Our Open Source Work on GitHub

Tarides contributes to the OCaml community by performing maintenance, hosting community events, and introducing new features to the language. You can now support this work by sponsoring it on GitHub.

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 26 Jun 2024

#community #ocaml

Enhancing the OCaml.org Community Page: Boosting UX and UI Based on User Research

In March, the OCaml.org team at Tarides embarked on a mission to enhance the OCaml.org community pages. After engaging with the OCaml community, we identified several areas for improvement. Our goal was to boost the community's usability and visibility, ensuring it supported a wider audience and pro…

Claire Vandenberghe

UX/UI Designer

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Wed, 01 May 2024

#community #events #ocaml

We Host Our First OCaml Retreat in India!

Hacking retreats are great ways for programmers to connect, explore new ideas, and learn from each other. One of the most popular OCaml retreats is the much-loved Mirage retreat, organised annually in Morocco. But for us OCaml enthusiasts located elsewhere, the journey can be challenging (not to men…

Sudha Parimala

Senior Software Engineer

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 13 Mar 2024

#community #events #open-source

My experience at IndiaFOSS 2023: Community, Workshop, and Talks

There are plenty of exciting computer programming events happening in India, including the 5 day OCaml retreat that Tarides is hosting in Auroville this week – look out for future posts on that! Another great (and bigger!) event is the annual free and open source software conference IndiaFOSS orga…

Sudha Parimala

Senior Software Engineer

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Wed, 07 Feb 2024

#community #ocaml

Improving OCaml.org to Provide an Engaging UX and Trusted User Resources

The OCaml.org team, which includes members from Tarides, have been working hard to improve OCaml.org. In the first half of 2023, our primary focus was on the much-needed overhaul of OCaml.org's documentation and overall UX Design. We aspired to enhance user experience and accessibility throughout th…

Christine Rose

Technical Writer

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Wed, 20 Dec 2023

#community #functional-programming #ocaml

OCaml Survey: Developers' Perception, Interest, and Perceived Barriers

Tarides is conducting a survey targeting non-OCaml programmers to learn their thoughts about this functional programming language and uncover any misconceptions surrounding it. Please take a few mintues to fill it out if you haven't yet done so. This post shows our preliminary findings based on a re…

Christine Rose

Technical Writer

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Tue, 05 Dec 2023

#community #team

International Disability Day 2023: Why It Matters

When I was in my early 20s, I developed a chronic illness that (amongst other things) has affected my mobility. Becoming disabled is an eye-opening experience, as it makes you acutely aware of two things: First, there are many ways in which society genuinely tries to help people with disabilities, a…

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Wed, 08 Mar 2023

#community #events

More Than a Day: How Does Tarides Promote Women in Tech?

The aim of International Women’s Day is to raise awareness of gender inequalities and call for the empowerment of women worldwide. The goal is to forge a gender equal world and advance women’s equality in all forms. Within the field of technology, the focus is on elevating and advancing gender p…

Gemma Gordon

COO

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Tue, 06 Sep 2022

#community #sponsor

Tarides Sponsors Girls Can Code

The tech industry has long struggled with a lack of diversity. This existing imbalance combined with social and educational problems such as early gender bias still tends to prevent lots of people, including women, from entering the field. Girls Can Code aims to help young women learn programming an…

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Mon, 02 May 2022

#community #ocaml

OCaml.org Reboot: User-Centric Design & Content

Tarides is pleased to announce the launch of the updated community site, ocaml.org. Over the past year and a half, we have supported and collaborated with members of the OCaml community on the creation of an updated community website. We are proud to present new features and improvements that will b…

Thibaut Mattio

Principal Software Engineer

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Tue, 19 Apr 2022

#community #events #partnership

Tarides Partners with 50inTech!

50inTech Tarides is proud to have been recognised by 50inTech and featured on their website! 50inTech’s mission is to achieve a 50% representation of women in tech by 2050. To this end, 50inTech runs several amazing initiatives that generate opportunities for women looking to have successful caree…

Héloïse Berra Lutton

Head of Human Resources

Isabella Leandersson

Communications Officer

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Tue, 20 Jul 2021

#community #events

Tarides at WomenHack Virtual Event

Tarides takes great pride in a diverse workforce and strives to continue bringing talented people to its team from around the globe. This is why Sonja Heinze, a Tarides software engineer, and the Head of HR, Héloïse Lutton, will attend WomenHack, an online event dedicated to recruiting more women …

Christine Rose

Technical Writer

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Mon, 14 Dec 2020

#community #events #sponsor

Tarides sponsors the Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference 2020

The Oxbridge Women in Computer Science conference is an annual one-day event hosted by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (UK). The conference is free and open to everyone from any discipline, regardless of gender identity. Its purpose is to spotlight the successes of women within computer sci…

Céline Laplassotte

COO

Articles on community

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

OCaml 5.5 Summary: What's New in the Latest OCaml Update

ICFP 2025: Looking Back at the Biggest Functional Programming Conference of the Year

OCaml 5.4 Release: New Features, Fixes, and More!

Add Your Own Recipes to the OCaml Cookbook!

Introducing Jane Street's OxCaml Branch!

Feature Parity Series: Improving Developer Tooling on macOS

Feature Parity Series: Restoring the MSVC Port

FOSDEM 2025: Report from the Friendly Functional Languages BOF Room

Tarides: 2024 in Review

OCaml 5.3: Features and Fixes!

Learn OCaml the Easy Way - Including the Hard Bits

The New Conference on the Block: What is FUN OCaml?

Making OCaml Mainstream: Support Our Open Source Work on GitHub

Enhancing the OCaml.org Community Page: Boosting UX and UI Based on User Research

We Host Our First OCaml Retreat in India!

My experience at IndiaFOSS 2023: Community, Workshop, and Talks

Improving OCaml.org to Provide an Engaging UX and Trusted User Resources

OCaml Survey: Developers' Perception, Interest, and Perceived Barriers

International Disability Day 2023: Why It Matters

More Than a Day: How Does Tarides Promote Women in Tech?

Tarides Sponsors Girls Can Code

OCaml.org Reboot: User-Centric Design & Content

Tarides Partners with 50inTech!

Tarides at WomenHack Virtual Event

Tarides sponsors the Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference 2020

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