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Looking Back on our Experience at ICFP!
Some of Tarides' engineers share their memories and impressions from the biggest functional programming event of the year.
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Unlock your Team’s Potential with Expert Training in OCaml, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Functional Programming, and More
Training your teams has proven benefits, enhancing the efficiency and quality of work, and equipping members with the skills they need to tackle new challenges. Specialist training empowers them to use new techniques, leverage advanced technologies, and solve more complex problems. At Tarides, we ar…
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The Biggest Functional Programming Conference of the Year: What are we Bringing to ICFP?
Feeling fashionable? Milan is calling! ICFP 2024 will be held in the Italian fashion capital from 2-7 September, and there is something there for everyone to enjoy. The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming is a yearly highlight with various keynotes, tutorials, and tracks t…
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Monoculture of Insecurity: How CrowdStrike's Outage Exposes the Risks of Unchecked Complexity in Cybersecurity
A seismic event in the IT world, everyone is talking about the CrowdStrike update that caused global chaos earlier this month. There are many great articles and blog posts dissecting the event and suggesting ways to avoid a repeat. Rather than join our voice to the chorus and explain how a small cha…
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My Experience With Tarides at ICFP 2023!
ICFP 2024 will be upon us sooner than you might think! The call for papers closes on the 28th of February, and I wish everyone submitting good luck. Hopefully I will see you around Milan this upcoming September (at the OCaml Workshop, of course!) and to stave off your ICFP cravings until then, enjoy…
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OCaml Survey: Developers' Perception, Interest, and Perceived Barriers
Tarides is conducting a survey targeting non-OCaml programmers to learn their thoughts about this functional programming language and uncover any misconceptions surrounding it. Please take a few mintues to fill it out if you haven't yet done so. This post shows our preliminary findings based on a re…
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OCaml: Memory Safety and Beyond
Your choice of programming language matters. A recent press release from the US National Security Agency (NSA), in tandem with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) alongside international cybersecurity agencies, urges the adoption of memory-safe programming languages for en…
The State of the Art in Functional Programming: Tarides at ICFP 2023
ICFP 2023 The 28th ACM Sigplan International Conference on Functional Programming is taking place in Seattle as I’m typing. This is the largest international research conference on functional programming, and this year’s event features fascinating keynotes (including one from OCaml’s very own …
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Making OCaml 5 Succeed for Developers and Organisations
OCaml recently won the ACM SIGPLAN PL Software Award. The award recognises a software system that has had a significant impact on programming language implementation, research, and tools. It is especially notable that 4 out of the 14 named OCaml compiler developers are affiliated with Tarides: Anil,…
Lambda Retreat Report
Today we're taking a little pause from our OCaml 5 series to talk about a programming retreat. I spent a week in the woods with fellow programmers at the Lambda Retreat. It was a wonderful way to explore the nature of computations, abrstractions, and paradigms. Although I mostly work in OCaml, it wa…
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Engineer Spotlight: Jules Aguillon
In celebration of the OCaml 5 release, we decided to interview a few of our talented engineers about OCaml. While it isn't a well-known language outside of the functional programming community, we're striving to get the word out about the great benefits of OCaml and why it's worth your time to try i…
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Love Rust? Then OCaml's New Eio Library is for You
We’ve come to expect a lot from the programming languages we use. We want the memory safety of Java, the performance of C/C++, and the concurrency of Go. On top of this, we need robust cybersecurity tools to protect us from the many risks and vulnerabilities in the world, all in an intuitive and e…
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Six Surprising Reasons the OCaml Programming Language is Good for Business
Functional programming languages have been around since the 1950's, when the first high-level languages were used to program early computers. Examples of functional programming languages include OCaml, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, Scala, and Common Lisp. Choosing the right programming language is criti…
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Presenting on Algebraic Effects at FP-SYD
At ICFP this year, KC Sivaramakrishnan gave two talks that put OCaml 5 in the spotlight: his keynote, “Retrofitting Concurrency - Lessons from the Engine Room,” and the opening presentation of the OCaml workshop, “OCaml 5.0 - Concurrent and Parallel Programming.” Effect Handlers feature heav…
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Real World OCaml Book Giveaway!
Real World OCaml is a fantastic book on OCaml and functional programming – a great resource for beginners and experienced users alike. At Tarides, we want to support new learners of OCaml as much as we can, making it easier for people to become part of the vibrant community surrounding the languag…
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8 OCaml Libraries to Make Your Life Easier
OCaml is a statically-typed programming language that emphasizes readability, programmer efficiency, and semantic clarity. This powerful and efficient language has been gaining popularity among developers. The growing adoption of OCaml is because it's fast, type safe, and secure. It can be used in i…
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ICFP 2022 Review
After two years of online conferences, it was fantastic to have ICFP 2022 in person. The conference organisers had done a fantastic job adjusting to online conferences, but nothing beats the hallway track for meeting new people and catching up with old friends. This year, Slovenia's capital hosted t…
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Functional Conf 2022
This year, Tarides attended the 2022 Functional Conf in India. Tarides’s engineers Sudha Parimala and Shakthi Kannan gave presentations on the OCaml platform and Sandmark, a continuous benchmarking tool for Multicore OCaml. The Functional Conf is a three-day conference on everything functional pro…
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OCaml 5 Alpha Release
OCaml 5 is live! This major release introduces domains and effects, delivering unprecedented speed and efficiency to OCaml. Testing shows that OCaml 5 is able to outperform Go and closely match Rust in terms of performance. Keep reading for more details! Tarides is thrilled that the alpha release of…
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Tarides Sponsors 12th Annual Journées Franciliennes
Tarides is proud to sponsor the 12th annual programming contest Journées Franciliennes de Programmation! On the 31st of May 2022, students from three different Parisian universities met at La Sorbonne University to engage in some friendly but lively competition. Bachelor students from La Sorbonne (…
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Tarides Engineers to Present at ICFP 2021
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the OCaml Language! It's an exciting time for OCaml programmers and enthusiasts. A fun and informative way to celebrate OCaml's birthday is to attend the 26th Annual International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), held online this year due to ongoin…
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OCaml Workshop 2018
The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop brings together industrial users of OCaml with academics and hackers who are working on extending the language, type system and tools. OCaml 2018 was held on September 27th, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, colocated with ICFP 2018. Check Tarides' talks: RFCs…
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