This topic is for discussing the Base/Core/Async suite of "standard" libraries. All of these libraries are designed to work well together and share common idioms (though they can be used independently as well)
Here's a quick guide to the major pieces:
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Base: Newest of the group. A slimmed down library which builds quickly and doesn't have any UNIX dependencies or build-time dependencies on PPXs. Portable, including to Javascript via js_of_ocaml
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Stdio: a complement to Base, containing basic blocking IO, based on OCaml's input and output channels.
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Core_kernel: a more fully-featured, but still portable stdlib, extending Base and Stdio.
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Core: Extension of Core_kernel, including Unix support
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Async_kernel: Portable library for building concurrent programs.
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Async: Concurrent programming on Unix, extending Async_kernel.
