When I got started in OCaml, my setup was basically a dual boot of Windows 11 and Ubuntu. I had a few issues setting up OCaml on windows at the time and started looking up WSL and if it was a good alternative (I really disliked having to dual boot always). So I wrote this article detailing exactly h…

@lukstafi It’s a very detailed article. Very nice coverage.

@PizieDust Sounds like a nice and accurate update for ocaml.org . And I’m not sure if @lukstafi meant this, but a custom WSL2 distribution (a glorified tarball of docker export) based on Debian/Ubuntu (the distro that seem to be the best supported on WSL2) with OCaml + LSP + VS Code and all the Platf…

@jbeckford Indeed this will be a great idea. Platforms like Digital Ocean that have one-click app installs will easily be able to have one click setups as well for OCaml projects with such a distribution/tarball.

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lukstafi May 21, 2024, 1:01pm 2

I have a somewhat related blog post How to update or install a new Linux distribution on WSL.

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