Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] IOCaml 0.4

[Andy Ray <andy.ray@ujamjar.com>]

You can now try iocamljs online.

http://andrewray.github.io/iocamljs/min.html
http://andrewray.github.io/iocamljs/full.html

There's no way to save your work at the moment unfortunately.

-Andy



On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Andy Ray <andy.ray@ujamjar.com> wrote:
> IOCaml provides an OCaml REPL in a webbrowser.  Version 0.4 frees us
> from the tyranny of Python and provides an OCaml based webserver.  Put
> another way you no longer need IPython installed at all.
>
> The project is split into 3 opam packages;
>
> * iocaml-kernel (https://github.com/andrewray/iocaml) - byte code OCaml kernel
> * iocamljs-kernel (https://github.com/andrewray/iocamljs) - javascript
> OCaml kernel(s)
> * iocaml (https://github.com/andrewray/iocamlserver) - iocaml webserver
>
> In general from a 4.01.0 compiler
>
> $ opam install iocaml
>
> should get everything installed.  OS requirements are libssl-dev and
> libzmq3-dev (possibly some others as well, let me know and I'll add
> them to the project pages).  Chrome, Firefox and Safari have been
> tested.
>
> To run iocaml;
>
> $ iocaml
>
> or
>
> $ iocaml path/to/dir
>
> To bring up the dashboard interface.  Or
>
> $ iocaml notebook.ipynb
>
> To directly load a notebook.
>
> Use the "-js <kernel>" option to load a javascript based ocaml kernel.
>
> $ iocaml -js min [...]
>
> will load a minimal javascript ocaml REPL while
>
> $ iocaml -js full [...]
>
> will load a REPL with the js_of_ocaml and lwt libraries including
> syntax extensions included.
>
> For those brave souls you can try
>
> $ iocaml -js min -serve-jslibs [...]
>
> and have a play with #use "topfind" / #require.  Its probably worth
> mentioning that the various "-serve" options allow the browser access
> to your file system so don't run it on a public network without due
> care.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy