Finding Answers to your Questions
Last Updated: 27, July 2020 at 09:35:49
Overview
Compared to other more popular languages, OCaml has a lot less instructional tutorials and helpful stack-overflow questions. For any user, this can be incredibly frustrating. Finding answers can be different depending on what user you are, but some places offer a good starting point for nearly everyone.
Recommended Workflow
Discuss OCaml
OCaml has a very active and supportive discussion forum which is most people's first port of call when trying to find an answer. This could be either searching for similar questions or posting your own under the relevant category.
Github Issues
Another great place to look for answers for a specific library or executable is in the Github issues of that library. Often bugs are reported which might just be because of a confusing API and the maintainers of the code clear it up and close the issue - use this to your advantage and learn from them. This is also a good sanity-check before you disappear down the rabbit hole to debug something!
Alternatives
Caml Mailing List & Discord
Other places to look include the caml mailing list, the IRC channel and the Discord server (which also includes the IRC channel).