01:16 <discocaml> <godwinnweke_63084> I am a contributor in the ocaml project, I have finished setting up the ocaml on my system and on git but anytime I try to run the project it keeps showing me error on the joy module. Please any help will be appriciated.

01:59 <companion_cube> The joy module?!?

04:09 <discocaml> <geoff> sounds like that simple shape drawing library that they mentioned on discuss as an outreachy project

09:51 <discocaml> <godwinnweke_63084> Yeah @beheddard

09:57 <discocaml> <godwinnweke_63084> Yeah it's a shape drawing library I am supposed to contribute on it in outreachy. I don't know if I that's actually a task for contributors or for interns.

10:50 <discocaml> <godwinnweke_63084> I seriously confused with this. What should I contribute?

10:51 <discocaml> <godwinnweke_63084> When I try to run one of the test file, it gives me Error: Unbound module Joy. I am so much confused on how I can contribute to this project. Please any help will be appriciated.

10:57 <discocaml> <bnguyenv> There's an #outreachy channel where you should be able to find more information

11:55 <Rannug> Hey guys, just wondering if there is a specific book on ocaml you recommend or a tutorial, I'm just a beginner and am installing the environment as we speak?

11:58 <discocaml> <barconstruction> I recommend following the tutorial on the ocaml website to begin with.

11:58 <discocaml> <barconstruction> After that you can switch to the book for the CS 3110 class at Cornell,

11:58 <discocaml> <barconstruction> "OCaml : Correct, Efficient, Beautiful."

11:59 <discocaml> <barconstruction> I also noticed that that book contains very careful and patient instructions for setting up and debugging your ocaml installation so i would look at the intro if you are having problems with ocaml.

12:01 <Rannug> I'm using that exact book to install the environment, I can run utop and get everything running fine now.

12:01 <Rannug> Thanks, I'll check the tutorial on the ocaml website.

12:12 <discocaml> <barconstruction> I moved on from that book after I felt like I understood the basic syntax and concepts of the language. It is difficult to learn the module system without writing a more substantial program than just simple exercises of a dozen lines of code.

12:12 <discocaml> <barconstruction> Since then I have been learning OCaml by porting some existing code I wrote in Python. When I don't know how to do something I skim the Real World OCaml book for a relevant section and that tells me where to look for the Core sublibrary with the functionality I need.

12:22 <Rannug> Cool, good to know where I can look, thanks barconstruction.

15:08 <discocaml> <loreleioo> Why is there a french channel here?

15:13 <discocaml> <._null._> Because there were so many French-speaking people coming to ask questions that a channel was deserved. Also, a good part of the community speaks French, so it's not like their questions would remain unanswered. (Also, this is only true on Discord AFAIK)

15:15 <discocaml> <td2t> ocaml is made by french devs

15:16 <discocaml> <._null._> I don't think it's true anymore, it's more international now

15:18 <discocaml> <td2t> yeah but that could be one of the reasons why

15:29 <discocaml> <octachron> Mostly a combination of having many French beginners and French regulars.

15:39 <discocaml> <cswine> wasnt ocaml invented by a french person

15:39 <discocaml> <cswine> leroy I believe

15:42 <discocaml> <._null._> "Invented". He was main dev for some sense of main at its creation

15:45 <discocaml> <loreleioo> Ah nice nice

16:04 <discocaml> <octachron> Caml was the French branch of the ML language before the fork from SML in the nineties. Nowadays a little less of 60% core maintainers are French (with around 30% of maintainers from the UK).

16:07 <discocaml> <gooby_clown> French is also a lovely language 🥰 (until it isn't)

16:45 <discocaml> <loreleioo> BAAHAHAHAH

16:57 <discocaml> <gooby_clown> Why you laughing