Neocaml 0.11: OxCaml, Indentation Styles, and odoc

I’m happy to announce that neocaml 0.11 is out! I never got around to writing about 0.10, which was mostly about neocaml-utop (a utop backend that talks to utop via its native editor protocol), but 0.11 is a different story. Its changelog is twice as long as that of any release before it, and by now I’ve stopped pretending that a grand 1.0 is just around the corner.1 There’s a lot in there, but three things stand out for me - OxCaml support, indentation styles, and much better support for documentation. Here’s why…OxCamlOxCaml is Jane Street’s set of extensions to OCaml - modes and modalities, kinds, unboxed types, stack allocation and so on. You can use them today with an OxCaml compiler switch, and Jane Street’s libraries use them all over the place. A lot of the heavy lifting happened upstream, as tree-sitter-ocaml 0.26 learned to parse OxCaml, and Tim McGilchrist bumped neocaml’s grammars to it. 314eter (the tree-sitter-ocaml maintainer) once again cut an ABI 14 build of the…

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