Congratulations to @Odersky and all the developers of Scala! On June 24, the programming language, first written at EPFL, received the prestigious #ACMSIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award at PLDI 2019. Purdue Computer Science Tiark Rompf actu.epfl.ch/news/scala-pro…

TIL: LinuxThreads, the original Linux threading implementation, was developed by Xavier Leroy, OCaml's author

A big multicore #OCaml update this month. Effect handlers for direct-style concurrency will also be included into the forthcoming OCaml 5.0 release next year, along with domains-based parallelism! discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-oc…

It is here. General release is still scheduled for April 4.

Tilla Kari Mosque and Madrasa; Samarkand, Uzbekistan. A gleaming turquoise dome tops Tilla Kari Mosque and Madrasa, located in city center of Samarkand. UNESCO World Heritage site was built between 1646 and 1660, and interior features elaborate gilded tile. #archaeohistories

🥳🎉🍾IT IS OUT! 🍾🎉🥳discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-0-0-…

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🖥️ joining the excitement about multi-windows, let's see what we can do in Visual Studio Code 👉 as usual a first version of this is available in code.visualstudio.com/insiders/ Expect more updates next week 🙌

Naming things is hard. Latest Visual Studio Code Insiders and GitHub Copilot Chat pre-release will now suggest you names when you're trying to rename a symbol! Just trigger a rename (default shortcut F2) and you see a list of suggested names from Copilot!

GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat work surprisingly well with OCaml - I'm getting really good multi-line completions, getting answers to questions about js_of_ocaml, and even solving age-old dune config issues!

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