I finished the text editor I was working on to learn OCaml.

It's (tentatively) called textmu. The selling point is that it's designed for multiple users, all SSH-ed into the same machine, to edit a document collaboratively. Otherwise, I basically made it a simplified knockoff of nano.

Source code is on github.

If you'd like to try it out (and don't want to compile it locally), feel free to get an account on my public server, tilde.

Also, an update. The OCaml folks said it's fine to publish their book, so you can now get your own copy if you want one (link goes to updated blog post with photos).

Update: the book is available for sale on Lulu to the public. Volume 1 and Volume 2.

Recently I've been teaching myself new programming languages with books. I got one for D, Elixir, Erlang, and Go.

OCaml was also on my list of languages to learn, but there is no good OCaml book available. I started reading an online course textbook (for Cornell's CS 3110), only to find it painfully slow, beginner-level, and aimed at course tools besides. Eventually, I found the official OCaml manual to be the best source of information.

Unforunately, there is no published version of the manual. It is available online as HTML, PDF, or even a text file, but that's all. So, I went to Lulu and published my own copy of their PDF.

The PDF is so long I split it into two volumes. I'm pleased by how the manual turned out, though I haven't actually used it much for reference -- I've already spent two weeks programming OCaml before it arrived (Lulu is not fast).

I've been working on a terminal text editor in OCaml for two weeks. I'll post about that in more detail if and when I finish it.