Today I have so little spare time to ramp up on new things that interest me that I plan out my learning migration. As such I have been following OCaml multi-core and effects-based support closely to pounce when it is time.
The start is neigh!
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It looks like a couple to a few months before I immerse myself fully but until then I will nibble on some OCaml here and there. The big things for me are ocaml-freestanding and js_of_ocaml support for 5.0.
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And if I can be of use as a n00b user (reviewing or updating documentation) then I would be happy to do so.
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I have missed building real systems.
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My weekend task is setting up a dev environment with new nix/nixpkgs support:
nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs
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I'm interested to know how you do it! I played around with it using flakes (twitter.com/brendanzab/sta), then got confused with opam-nix, and am now wondering if I should just go with a global install :(
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Made overly elaborate example of a ‘Hello World’ package with Nix flakes, OCaml, and Dune: github.com/brendanzab/oca
Disclaimer: I'm a beginner at Nix and I've never really used OCaml or Dune before so if you know these, please tell me if I am doing anything silly. 
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