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Hi! I am a contributor of this new version of ocaml.org.

Just wanted to also link the announcement post here: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/v3-ocaml-org-we-are-live/9747.

This new website comes with lots of improvements over the previous version, and in particular, the team has been working hard on the following:

- Central OCaml package documentation, which contains the documentation of every version of every OCaml packages. (https://ocaml.org/packages)

- OCaml job board, which lists job opportunities from the community. (https://ocaml.org/opportunities)

- OCaml success stories which explore how major OCaml industrial users solved real-world challenges using OCaml. (https://ocaml.org/industrial-users)

- An interactive OCaml playground to try OCaml code directly in the browser. (https://ocaml.org/play)

- A syndicated blog, which links to blog articles from the community and offers original blog posts. (https://ocaml.org/blog)

I'm thrilled that the website is live after more than a year of development! We hope that this will help new comers to have a smoother experience when trying OCaml (in particular with OCaml 5 coming soon), so don't hesitate to share feedback on how we can improve it further!




OCaml has a particularly easy to associate mascot that's been prominently featured in the past - is there a reason the website is moving away from the more familiar camel iconography?


The camel (in the top left corner) was the first thing I noticed!


The graph on the front page is unclear. Is it the fast compiler or the slow computer? The columns are labelled with mysterious words like "menhir" and "opam." I don't know what a reader new to OCaml is supposed to learn from it.


what website / community is the most warm on ocaml these days ? reddit ? irc ? I don't know, I'm curious where to find people thinking and working with *caml.


Both the Discord (https://discord.com/invite/cCYQbqN) and Discuss (https://discuss.ocaml.org/) are very active.


thanks a lot :)


You can ask on Matrix: #ocaml-language:matrix.org and generally being answered very quickly. I think this channel is also murrored on IRC.


Can I talk to you about the job board? What's the best way to get in touch?


Hi, sure, feel free to reach out at thibaut@tarides.com




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