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I’d second getting the soundtrack on Qobuz.

They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.

Yes, that can be super confusing initially. When I first started OCaml it took me a good while to figure out that there are essentially two "dialects" – stdlib and Jane Street. JS did a lot to popularise the language in recent years, and @yminsky.bsky.social et al's "Real World OCaml" is excellent.

Since you write a ton of OCaml, do you recommend us new learners stick to stdlib too?

I recently ran into this as well. It is a bit confusing to have multiple stdlibs but from what I gathered in my reading, mane seem to use core from Jane street too. I’ve started using that for my learning and it’s going well so far. It’s very feature rich!

So #ocaml has been a great learning experience so far. The community is super helpful and patient with beginners. Question for everyone though, is heavy usage of |> seen out in the wild? I’m using it everywhere I can at the moment.

I wonder the same. It would be nice to have a general debug print or something that you could pipe into and it would also return the what was passed into it so you could debug intermediate steps.

Most definitely! The type inference is really amazing so it still feels very ergonomic to write. I doubt the cli will go far but it’s a great learning exercise. I may post here if I make some more progress!

Update on the weekend of learning #ocaml. I managed to start on a cli for reading Bluesky feeds, but the transition from Python to OCaml is expectedly a bit difficult. Kudos to the OCaml team for the overview doc on the site as that helped a lot to get going. Really enjoying the language though!

A hand-drawn autumnal scene with a parked motorbike, rabbits, and a pudu with the words "Steam Autumn Sale Nov 27 - Dec 4 at 10am Pacific" written across it.

Hello to the Bluesky community!

We're trundling on in with an announcement; the Steam Autumn Sale starts next Wednesday, November 27th with deals on games of all types - from games that are blue, to games that are about skies, and everything in between.

After stumbling upon several #ocaml posts/accounts here on Bluesky, I’m going to give it a try this weekend.

The rotation periods of the planets, side-by-side

Linux Kernel 6.12 Release Adds Real-Time Capability and Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support Linux Kernel 6.12 finally brings in real-time computing capabilities to the mainline.

Linux kernel 6.12 is now available, bringing significant enhancements!

Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky!

18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️