Writing an interpreter... in OCaml?!?

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[ameenkhieredeen]

I love OCaml, would be great if you made an OCaml course or tutorials would definitely watch them.

[JakobKenda]

Yes, definitely do more of this.
I don't think we need a full OCaml course, just learning alongside you explaining code is enough I think.

[bayrock]

Keep these coming, OCaml has been my language of choice recently and deserves attention.

[industry_std]

When I discovered pattern matching with Elixir my mind was blown... and yet this looks even 'cuter'

[pharmajoe]

This is great, I’ve only ever heard of ocaml previously. Will have to have a play around, cheers

[imhassane]

Learnt it in my second year of university, couldn’t understand this language at the time but this code looks beautiful

[rahuldevstech]

OCaml, my Caml!
But, seriously: even more OCaml curious now. Thanks for sharing!

[lillyschwarz]

you're literally saving me and my bachelor thesis xD

[maleldil]

Please keep these coming! I've done the book in Go, so seeing a different way will be interesting. I can already see how much better pattern matching is compared to type switching on interfaces in the original.

OCaml is a language that I used to be interested in (as a middle ground between Rust and Haskell), but I got put off by how inconsistent the community is. I can see it being useful for cases like this, where you likely don't need much outside of the core language.

[Honken]

Subscribing for OCaml content! One of the nicest programming languages in existence.

[orbital]

OCaml is pretty nice - especially for this kind of stuff! I've used it a bit in the past for automated reasoning & formal verification type work.

[tyrox]

Really liked the video, what i would like to see is how to use dune/run tests or an explanation on how to use modules. I tried to read the documentation and i could not figure this things out.

[StopBuggingMeGoogleIHateYou]

I want to encourage you to keep making videos like this because OCaml is a brilliant and beautiful language for programming language theory. That said, the clickbait title was a bit jarring. "Writing an interpreter ... in OCaml?!?" This is exactly what OCaml excels at! There's nothing surprising about writing interpreters in OCaml!

[draakisback]

I love Ocaml, glad you decided to make a video on it. I know you're pretty hot on the language also but obviously it's not as popular as say rust for example. I'm looking forward to the opam Windows release since I do most of my development on Windows. Fortunately in the meantime we have DKML which is pretty fantastic.

[rickdg]

Nice to see your first ocaml my caml video. If you can find a way to have your green screen a little further back, you can probably prevent the green reflection that its casting on your head.

[pedrosaraiva]

15 years ago at my university class we were assigned to build a interpreter in OCaml and Prolog

[charstringetje]

Any curried ML language is nice, and Rok too (even though it doesn't curry functions by default). With OCaml I just had to get used to the French ordering of product types: `int list` instead of `List Int`. French acronyms can be confusing in the same way.

[tofuman]

Yes yes, it’s fun to watch OCaml lang used to make something interesting like this. Would love to see an API development or something too

[fredericchopin]

Wow! We do ocaml in france and i had a project for writing mini compiler of java using ocaml

[TayTayChan]

Long overdue video, Teej! I knew you were doing some OCaml and got curious, but try as I might I'm not made for watching live streams.
Interesting implementation, would love to see more. I did some ML back in the day, so it's not completely alien.