This repository contains the roadmap for the OCaml Platform, which lays down the direction of the OCaml Platform for the next three years. The primary focus is to build a seamless IDE experience and a thriving community of open-source projects that constitute the Platform.
Note: The roadmap is a work-in-progress. We're developping it in the open and any input is welcome, so don't hesitate to open an issue to share your feedback. Since Tarides is taking the initiative to establishing a roadmap for the OCaml Platform in collaboration with the Platform maintainers and the community, we're hosting the work-in-progress roadmap on the Tarides GitHub organisation. However, the OCaml Platform is a community project, so once we'll have iterated on the community's feedback and will be ready to adopt a first version of the roadmap, we will host it on OCaml.org.
The OCaml Platform is the recommended toolchain to work and be productive with OCaml. It is designed as a collection of tools that improve the overall developer experience by addressing various user experience (UX) gaps in OCaml development, such as build automation, package management, documentation generation, code formatting, and more.
The OCaml Platform is built on the principle that a language is only as good as the tools and ecosystem surrounding it. Over the past 25 years, the OCaml Platform has evolved to include many different tools, each of which serves a specific purpose and often does its job well. However, the overall developer experience can be suboptimal because some of these tools overlap in functionality and have different user interfaces and workflows. The roadmap we present here aims at addressing these issues by both creating an integrated unified experience and improving specific workflows.