alt.hn

2/27/2026 at 9:31:39 PM

Neocaml – Rubocop Creator's New OCaml Mode for Emacs

 https://github.com/bbatsov/neocaml

by TheWiggles

3/2/2026 at 11:24:28 AM

I think Bozhidar's other projects[0][1][2] are more relevant as "credentials" for an Emacs mode, although probably more niche :)

[0] Projectile, a project mode https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

[1] Cider, a clojure mode https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider

[2] Prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

by riffraff

3/2/2026 at 3:57:03 PM

For context for those not aware, CIDER is probably the #1 Clojure repl in terms of popularity for day to day work.

by eduction

3/2/2026 at 2:22:39 PM

Good projects. I have only used Clojure professionally for about 2 years out of the last 15 years but I lived in Cider.

When I bought my new laptop a few months ago I consciously and purposefully refused to install VSCode, just improved my Emacs setup for all writing and programming - and I have been happier for it.

by mark_l_watson

3/2/2026 at 2:01:23 PM

great news Bozhidar always makes fantastic stuff

by beanjuiceII

3/2/2026 at 3:06:34 PM

I was satisfied with Tuareg + Merlin for OCaml development in Emacs, it just worked for me and didn't break when I upgraded packages, but yes, this being from bbatsov is a strong incentive to try it out. My only concern is that it uses tree-sitter, which I try to avoid because of the messiness of the JavaScript ecosystem.

by jasperry

3/2/2026 at 4:39:39 PM

I think tree-sitter's relationship with JavaScript is entirely syntactic. You don't need any JS runtime installed to write grammars, because technically tree-sitter CLI already has a JS runtime included and using that it converts your grammar first to an intermediate JSON format, then it generates parser code in C. And then this C code gets compiled into a shared library, which is what editors like Emacs use, so to use tree-sitter modules you definitely don't need a JS runtime either.

by natrys

3/2/2026 at 12:06:57 PM

Aren't there specific IDEs for OCaml like for more mainstream languages?

by kleiba

3/2/2026 at 2:36:41 PM

Vim/Emacs/Sublime (And now things like VSC/Helix) are more than sufficient for coding without an IDE. Autocomplete scripts, the terminal, build scripts, etc work great. Now with LSP you can turn any editor into an IDE pretty trivially.

by ecshafer

3/2/2026 at 1:39:23 PM

You answered it yourself. More mainstream languages have specific IDEs and OCaml is not more mainstream.

by nesarkvechnep

3/2/2026 at 3:47:05 PM

What’s the specific Rust IDE?

by kstrauser

3/2/2026 at 5:15:01 PM

There is RustRover from JetBrains.

by jhck

3/3/2026 at 9:17:30 AM

Downvote? Really? You're not allowed to ask a question any more?

by kleiba