ocamlPackages.ocaml
OCaml is a general purpose programming language with an emphasis on expressiveness and safety. Developed for more than 20 years at Inria by a group of leading researchers, it has an advanced type system that helps catch your mistakes without getting in your way. It's used in environments where a single mistake can cost millions and speed matters, is supported by an active community, and has a rich set of libraries and development tools. It's widely used in teaching for its power and simplicity.
Strengths:
- A powerful type system, equipped with parametric polymorphism and type inference. For instance, the type of a collection can be parameterized by the type of its elements. This allows defining some operations over a collection independently of the type of its elements: sorting an array is one example. Furthermore, type inference allows defining such operations without having to explicitly provide the type of their parameters and result.
- User-definable algebraic data types and pattern-matching. New algebraic data types can be defined as combinations of records and sums. Functions that operate over such data structures can then be defined by pattern matching, a generalized form of the well-known switch statement, which offers a clean and elegant way of simultaneously examining and naming data.
- Automatic memory management, thanks to a fast, unobtrusive, incremental garbage collector.
- Separate compilation of standalone applications. Portable bytecode compilers allow creating stand-alone applications out of Caml Light or OCaml programs. A foreign function interface allows OCaml code to interoperate with C code when necessary. Interactive use of OCaml is also supported via a “read-evaluate-print” loop.
In addition, OCaml features:
- A sophisticated module system, which allows organizing modules hierarchically and parameterizing a module over a number of other modules.
- An expressive object-oriented layer, featuring multiple inheritance, parametric and virtual classes.
- Efficient native code compilers. In addition to its bytecode compiler, OCaml offers a compiler that produces efficient machine code for many architectures.
Learn more at: https://ocaml.org/learn/description.html
- Name
- ocaml
- Homepage
- Version
- 5.3.0
- License
- Platforms
- aarch64-linux
- armv5tel-linux
- armv6l-linux
- armv7a-linux
- armv7l-linux
- i686-linux
- loongarch64-linux
- m68k-linux
- microblaze-linux
- microblazeel-linux
- mips-linux
- mips64-linux
- mips64el-linux
- mipsel-linux
- powerpc-linux
- powerpc64-linux
- powerpc64le-linux
- riscv32-linux
- riscv64-linux
- s390-linux
- s390x-linux
- x86_64-linux
- x86_64-darwin
- aarch64-darwin
- Defined
- Source