A dead simple implementation of a subset of YOCaml for teaching purpose.

YOCaml is a generator of blog generators. In a sense, a kind of DSL capable of describing tasks that interact with a file system. Although its general operation is described in the following article, pair-programming a subset of the overall system is a very good exercise, allowing you to experiment with the use of OCaml 5's user-defined-effects, rather than using YOCaml's venerable Freer Monad.

The aim is not to end up with a YOCaml competitor.

Setting up a development environment is quite common. We recommend setting up a local switch to collect dependencies locally. Here are the commands to enter to initiate the environment:

opam update
opam switch create . ocaml-base-compiler.5.0.0 --deps-only -y
eval $(opam env)

After initializing the switch, you can collect the development and project dependencies using make:

make dev-deps
make deps