Building with OCaml

Anil shares his journey of using OCaml to create robust systems like SSH and DNS servers during his PhD. He highlights the advantages of OCaml's solid runtime and minimal bugs, which made it ideal for mission-critical applications. The conversation also touches on the growing popularity of functional programming and how it attracted talent to their startup, ultimately leading to the development of the Mirage project.

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Episode 204: Anil Madhavapeddy on the Mirage Cloud Operating System and the OCaml Language
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- Tell me more about OCaml
- Why do we sometimes know why programming languages are working and sometimes we don't, from the perspective of a compiler engineer, as discussed in the episode What is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy and the clip Embracing Complexity?

Building with OCaml

In this clip

From this podcast

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

Episode 204: Anil Madhavapeddy on the Mirage Cloud Operating System and the OCaml Language

Related Questions

Tell me more about OCaml

Why do we sometimes know why programming languages are working and sometimes we don't, from the perspective of a compiler engineer, as discussed in the episode What is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy and the clip Embracing Complexity?