Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
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Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
#2OCaml is pretty big in french universities, but could anyone from other countries say how popular this language is in their country (education and corporate sectors) ?
I'm quite surprised to see a news about this language on the front page of HN.
Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
#3OCaml is pretty big in french universities, but could anyone from other countries say how popular this language is in their country (education and corporate sectors) ? I'm quite surprised to see a news about this language on the front page of HN.
Probably the most known group using it in the US is Jane Street.
Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
#4OCaml is pretty big in french universities, but could anyone from other countries say how popular this language is in their country (education and corporate sectors) ? I'm quite surprised to see a news about this language on the front page of HN.
In Portugal I would say it doesn't exist...
But I have knowledge of its usage on some projects by big corporations.
It seems that janestreet [1] takes great pride in using OCaml. They have some interesting open source projects in github [2] and bitbucket [3].
And facebook has pfff [4], an "Ocaml API to write static analysis on source code" (such as PHP code, not only OCaml code).
(I'm not a facebook or janestreet employee)
[2]: https://github.com/janestreet
Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
#5OCaml is pretty big in french universities, but could anyone from other countries say how popular this language is in their country (education and corporate sectors) ? I'm quite surprised to see a news about this language on the front page of HN.
I can't speak to other undergraduate programs, but it's taught as the second course in Computer Science (Intro II) at Harvard College [0]. That said, it was chosen because it was less popular than other functional languages (namely Haskell or a Lisp flavor), so everyone was likely to be starting on "equal footing."
Take a look at the OCaml success stories [1]. Unison [2] in particular stands out—it's essentially the only two-way rsync tool for Unix, and it's written entirely in OCaml.
The only corporation I know of that uses OCaml is Jane Street Capital [3][4]. They've been huge proponents since they switched over, but the movement doesn't appear to have caught on among many other US-based companies. (More complete list [5].) Jane Street recruits fairly heavily from Harvard for internships—presumably because very few schools teach OCaml.
[0] http://cs51.seas.harvard.edu/
[1] http://caml.inria.fr/about/successes.en.html
[2] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
[3] http://janestreet.com/technology/
Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
#6OCaml is pretty big in french universities, but could anyone from other countries say how popular this language is in their country (education and corporate sectors) ? I'm quite surprised to see a news about this language on the front page of HN.
In Italy it isn't popular at all, but a couple of friends of mine use OCaml, mostly for hobby projects. And I like the language. It is more advanced than main stream languages I know (C#, Javascript), but, being strict, it is easier (for me) to reason about than Haskell.
Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
#7OCaml is pretty big in french universities, but could anyone from other countries say how popular this language is in their country (education and corporate sectors) ? I'm quite surprised to see a news about this language on the front page of HN.
In Portugal I would say it doesn't exist... But I have knowledge of its usage on some projects by big corporations. It seems that janestreet [1] takes great pride in using OCaml. They have some interesting open source projects in github [2] and bitbucket [3]. And facebook has pfff [4], an "Ocaml API to write static analysis on source code" (such as PHP code, not only OCaml code). (I'm not a facebook or janestreet emp…
We were taught OCaml in the Software Engineering undergraduate course at FCT-UNL, in Portugal, along with Prolog, C and Java.
Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
#8I've never used OCaml so I started randomly clicking through your source. I was looking at this file:
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/blob/maste...
It seems like it's using some GAE node (presumably owned by the author) for something to do with authentication. Would the author care to explain what's going on here?
Re: Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml
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In Portugal I would say it doesn't exist... But I have knowledge of its usage on some projects by big corporations. It seems that janestreet [1] takes great pride in using OCaml. They have some interesting open source projects in github [2] and bitbucket [3]. And facebook has pfff [4], an "Ocaml API to write static analysis on source code" (such as PHP code, not only OCaml code). (I'm not a facebook or janestreet emp…
We were taught OCaml in the Software Engineering undergraduate course at FCT-UNL, in Portugal, along with Prolog, C and Java.
My bad ... I wasn't aware. Do you know any Portuguese company that uses OCaml?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
We were taught OCaml in the Software Engineering undergraduate course at FCT-UNL, in Portugal, along with Prolog, C and Java.
My bad ... I wasn't aware. Do you know any Portuguese company that uses OCaml?
No, not really, it seems almost all use Java or .NET languages. Thankfully, I found a Python startup here in Lisbon.