[Caml-list] Surge in interest in OCaml
Jon Harrop
For anyone who is interested: we were having a quiet period with regard to our
OCaml products lately until the OCaml Journal published an article on LLVM
last month. This seems to have sparked a lot of interest in OCaml from that
community because this is a great choice of language for many of the people
trying to write compiler front-ends that use LLVM.
There are other aspects of commonality between OCaml and LLVM interest at the
moment. I see the topic of C++ parsers arose again here recently
(Olmar/Elsa). The LLVM guys are struggling to write C and C++ front-ends for
LLVM but they appear to be doing everything from scratch in C/C++. I have
been biting my lip trying not to say "Use OCaml!" on their mailing list but
perhaps someone with relevant OCaml experience could provide them with a
better starting point like a mini implementation?
Finally, one of our customers can up with a great suggestion: that we list
OCaml-related projects on our site that we believe would benefit the
community. One of the first things I would like to list is the creation of a
library that allows FFIs to be autogenerated at run-time using LLVM, thus
obviating the need for C stubs. I think this would be tremendously useful.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
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