riot's dead, long live riot

thoughts on the evolution of riot, and its future.

Exceptions are Ok

Let's look at how Results and Exceptions stack up to each other, and against ideal error handling ergonomics.

Parsing with Binary String Pattern Matching

I want to show you a glimpse of what it could look like when you parse it binary string pattern matching in OCaml like you'd do on Erlang, Elixir, or Gleam

Unix Module Considered Harmful

Type-safe state machines using type-state

Tired of writing state machines full of invalid transitions? Type-state may be what you're looking for. In this issue of Practical OCaml we show you how to use it to build type-safe state machines.

A quick guide to GADTs and why you ain't gonna need them

Ever wanted to use a GADT but did not know if you really needed them? You probably don't. And here's why.