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Exploring Static Data Race Freedom in OxCaml
Discover the data race free modes of OxCaml, and how we tested them on a multicore branch of OCaml's editor service Merlin!
Senior Software Engineer
VSCode Walkthrough: Installing OCaml in 1 Click
We have created a VSCode walkthrough guiding users through installing OCaml with opam.
Software Engineer
OCaml.org Now Uses odoc 3: What’s New?
Check out the features that come with the latest version of OCaml's documentation tool odoc!
Creating ocaml.nvim to Bring Neovim Support to OCaml's LSP Server
Introducing the `ocaml.nvim` plugin, which integrates OCaml's Neovim editor with the LSP.
Software Engineer
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!
Announcing Unikraft Support for MirageOS Unikernels
Get an overview of the Unikraft backend support for MirageOS, including performance benchmarks on different devices.
Principal Software Engineer
Supporting OCurrent: FLOSS/Fund Backs Maintenance for OCaml's Native CI Framework
Announcing FLOSS Fund's support for maintenance of OCaml's native CI and workflow framework OCurrent
Internship Report: Refactoring Tools Coming to Merlin
Timéo shares his project integrating new refactoring features into Merlin, improving user experience with a new command.
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.
Communications Officer
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.
Senior Software Engineer
Communications Officer
Improving Memory Profiler Visualisations for OCaml
Discover our Internship project focusing on building new visualisations for OCaml's memory profiler "statmemprof".
Principal Software Engineer
Communications Officer
Opam Health Check: or How we Got to 90+% of Packages Building with Dune Package Management
A follow-up to the previous blog post about Dune package management, highlighting more bug fixes and summarising the project
Senior Software Engineer
OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025
Are you curious about using OCaml for web development? We outline some of the biggest tools and libraries you'll want to check out!
Communications Officer
Senior Software Engineer
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.
Communications Officer
Expanding Dune Package Management to the Rest of the Ecosystem
What happens if you try to build all Dune packages in opam-repository with Dune package management?
Senior Software Engineer
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.
Principal Software Engineer
We're Moving Ocsigen from Lwt to Eio!
Announcing a new project transitioning the web development framework Ocsigen from Lwt to Eio and effects, creating new tools and workflows.
Communications Officer
Feature Parity Series: Statmemprof Returns!
Statmemprof, a statistical memory profiler for OCaml, is now compatible with OCaml 5! Discover the technical background to the return of the feature.
Communications Officer
The First Wasm_of_ocaml Release is Out!
Discover what's new with the release of Js_of_ocaml 6.0.1 – including Wasm support!
Senior Software Engineer
Communications Officer
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.
Communications Officer
Making Crypto Safer: Introducing the ARGOS Project
We are partnering up to create a custom platform for evaluating, tracing, and detecting suspicious blockchain transactions.
Communications Officer
Unlock your Team’s Potential with Expert Training in OCaml, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Functional Programming, and More
Training your teams has proven benefits, enhancing the efficiency and quality of work, and equipping members with the skills they need to tackle new challenges. Specialist training empowers them to use new techniques, leverage advanced technologies, and solve more complex problems. At Tarides, we ar…
Head Consulting Services
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…
Senior Software Engineer
OCaml at MinidebConf TN 2023
MinidebConf TN 23 was organised by Debian Developers and Villupuram Linux Users Group (VGLUG) as a precursor to DebConf 23 in September at Kochi, India. I had an opportunity to attend and speak at MiniDebConf TN. I presented two sessions, one built on our experiences of introducing a Code of Conduct…
Senior Software Engineer
The Journey to OCaml Multicore: Bringing Big Ideas to Life
Continuing our blog series on Multicore OCaml, this blog provides an overview of the road to OCaml Multicore. If you want to know how you can use OCaml 5 in your own projects, please contact us for more information. We also recommend watching KC Sivaramakrishnan's ICFP 22' talk Retrofitting Concurre…
Communications Officer
OCaml 5 at Open Source India 2022
With OCaml 5 just around the corner, it's been a really exciting year to attend conferences all over the world. Just recently, I presented some highlights of the OCaml 5 update, building on KC Sivaramakrishnan's great keynote address at the 19th annual Open Source India 2022 conference. Since Taride…
Senior Software Engineer
8 OCaml Libraries to Make Your Life Easier
OCaml is a statically-typed programming language that emphasizes readability, programmer efficiency, and semantic clarity. This powerful and efficient language has been gaining popularity among developers. The growing adoption of OCaml is because it's fast, type safe, and secure. It can be used in i…
Technical Writer
Segfault Systems Joins Tarides
We are delighted to announce that Segfault Systems, a spinout from IIT-Madras, is joining Tarides. Tarides has worked closely with Segfault Systems over the last couple of years, most notably on the award-winning Multicore OCaml project and the upstreaming plans for OCaml 5.0. This alliance furthers…
COO
OCaml Labs Joins Tarides
Today I am incredibly delighted to announce that OCaml Labs, a spinout from the University of Cambridge, is joining Tarides. After successfully collaborating on many OCaml projects over the last four years, this alliance will combine the expertise of both groups and enable us to bring OCaml, one of …
Tarides & Hyper: Partners in Agricultural Innovation
We are thrilled to announce a partnership between Tarides and Hyper, a technology provider in the agritech space who’s building an "operating system for high-performing farms." Indoor and vertical farms are becoming tech businesses that require scalable, flexible, and easy-to-use tools to facilita…
Technical Writer
Tarides Introduces OSMOSE at the Open-Source Innovation Sprint
Tarides is excited to announce that our CEO, Dr. Thomas Gazagnaire, and Prof. Anil Madhavapeddy, from the University of Cambridge, will present their innovative platform OSMOSE at the Open Source Innovation Sprint (OSIS) conference on 1 July 2021. This event is organized by Systematic. OSMOSE is a s…
Technical Writer
Partnering for more diversity in Tech
Tarides is very glad to announce our partnership with Ada Tech School. Founded in 2019 and based in Paris (France), Ada Tech School, named for pioneer computer scientist Ada Lovelace, is a programming school designed for women but open to all. The program is driven by three values: feminism, empathy…
Tarides is now a sponsor of the OCaml Software Foundation
Tarides is pleased to provide support for the OCaml Software Foundation, a non-profit foundation hosted by the Inria Foundation. The OCaml Software Foundation's mission is to promote the OCaml programming language and its ecosystem by supporting the growth of a diverse and international community of…
MirageOS talk at the Paris Open Source Summit
We are thrilled to have been selected by the Paris Open Source Summit committee to talk about “Secure-by-design IoT applications using MirageOS”. The Paris Open Source Summit is an annual event where you can connect to open-source communities and learn from tech leaders, project committers and C…
