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Re: A new C++ back end for ocamlc

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Post by znpy » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 11:58 AM UTC

shorsher wrote: post #7

hudsonhs wrote: post #5

She (Jane Street) is not gonna notice you, bro

I believe they already work for Jane Street.

Interesting fact: it was recently "revealed" in a podcast episode by Bryan Cantrill that Jane Street was one of the early customer of the Oxide Computer company.

Re: A new C++ back end for ocamlc

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Post by blanched » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 12:13 PM UTC

My eyebrows raised at "C++ is a purely functional language", but I thought it was just a typo.

The rest is fantastic, and I'm glad it wasn't a typo.

Re: A new C++ back end for ocamlc

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Post by classified » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 3:15 PM UTC

> C++ is a purely functional language, with no support for mutable state.

> To run a C++ program, you'll need a C++ interpreter.

I thought 1. April is already over?

Re: A new C++ back end for ocamlc

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Post by ygritte » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

tux3 wrote: post #15

Caum wrote: post #10

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This account is low-effort spam, the LLM generated comment seems to only look at the title. They should at least feed the contents of the page to the AI if they're going to spam.

Accounts like that should be deleted.