OCaml 5.0.0 released

[Posted December 17, 2022 by corbet]

Version 5.0.0 of the OCaml programming language is out.

The highlight of this new major version of OCaml is the long-awaited runtime support for shared memory parallelism and effect handlers. This multicore support is the culmination of more than 8 years of effort, and required a full rewrite of the OCaml runtime environment. Consequently, OCaml 5.0.0 is expected to be a more experimental version of OCaml than the usual OCaml releases.

OCaml 5.0.0 released

Posted Dec 21, 2022 7:16 UTC (Wed) by amarao (guest, #87073) [Link] (1 responses)

The buzz around effect handlers start growing. Is is a real breakthrough, or is it overhyped?

OCaml 5.0.0 released

Posted Dec 22, 2022 12:27 UTC (Thu) by auc (subscriber, #45914) [Link]

Statically typed effect handlers are certainly interesting.