Five months after the initial merge of the multicore branch into the mainline OCaml and three months after the release of OCaml 4.14.0, OCaml 5.0.0 is starting to take shape. I am thus happy to announce an exceptional zeroth alpha release of OCaml 5.0.0 (see below for the installation instructions)…

Indeed! I should have mentioned that point! The normal development process can restart on the compiler development branch. I will also try to slowly go through the backlog of frozen PRs once the alpha releases settle down .

I get a failure when I try to install the alpha opam repository with the command given in the initial message of this thread: % opam repo add alpha git://github.com/kit-ty-kate/opam-alpha-repository.git [ERROR] Could not update repository "alpha": "/usr/bin/git fetch -q" exited with code 128 [ERROR…

When I try to install menhir and cppo (as dependencies of merlin), I get errors like: # 17 | unix # ^^^^ # Error: Library "unix" in /home/tmartine/.opam/5.0/lib/ocaml is hidden # (unsatisfied 'exist_if') (for menhir), or # 21 | (libraries unix str)) # ^^^ # Err…

For the alpha repository issue, I had (once more) forgotten that github had deprecated the git protocol. I have updated the command, thanks! Concerning the dune error message, you currently need to upgrade to one of the alpha version of dune (either 3.2.0.2~alpha-repo or 2.9.3.1~alpha-repo) : relea…

An upstream release of Dune is also imminent

Now is probably the time to refactor the OCaml submissions to The Benchmark Game .

Congrats for the zeroth alpha release! That’s an exciting moment for OCaml history :tada: We’ve set up a quick survey at OCaml 5 Alpha Release | Tarides (direct link here: Tarides OCaml 5 User Survey | Framaforms.org ) to make sure everything is ready for the community and for Tarides’ commercial pa…

Exciting news. Soon “Ocaml is great and all but it doesn’t have support for multicore.” will no longer be a legitimate excuse not to use it.

OCaml 5.0, zeroth alpha release

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dbuenzli June 15, 2022, 9:10am 3

Does this mean we get global warming again ?

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