State of the OCaml Platform 2023
summary
Platform marks 10 years since opam 1.0 and proposes a three year roadmap that lists about 20 concrete workflows to complete. Editor-side work already shipped includes an OCaml LSP server (2020), a VS Code extension, Merlin’s precise jump‑to‑definition and Dune 3.0 with Dune RPC. Priority is making Dune as front end by integrating opam and publish tools (opam / dune-release or opam-publish), incubating missing tools like a linter and benchmarking, and adding packaging features to generate installers and better documentation tooling.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00OCaml Platform 2023 intro
- 0:46What is OCaml Platform
- 3:53Platform progress and roadmap
- 5:42Dev experience roadmap update
- 7:08June as front end
- 10:19Better get started experience
- 12:04Fully integrated editor
- 13:31Gaps in dev workflows
- 15:39Reducing workflow friction
- 16:00Improving docs generation
- 19:17Next steps and contributions
- 21:09Q&A on diversity
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