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==Users== At least several dozen companies use OCaml to some degree.<ref name="ocaml.org-companies">{{Cite web|url=https://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html|title=Companies using OCaml|access-date=2021-05-14|publisher=OCaml.org}}</ref> Notable examples include: * [[Bloomberg L.P.]], which created [https://bucklescript.github.io/ BuckleScript], an OCaml compiler backend targeting JavaScript.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/bucklescript-1-0-release-arrived/|title=BuckleScript: The 1.0 release has arrived! {{!}} Tech at Bloomberg|date=8 September 2016|website=Tech at Bloomberg|ref=12|access-date=21 May 2017}}</ref> * [[Citrix Systems]], which uses OCaml in [[Citrix Systems#Networking and cloud|XenServer]] (rebranded as Citrix Hypervisor during 2018).<ref>{{cite conference|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1863543.1863557|doi=10.1145/1863543.1863557|first1=David|last1=Scott|first2=Richard|last2=Sharp|first3=Thomas|last3=Gazagnaire|first4=Anil|last4=Madhavapeddy|title=Using functional programming within an industrial product group: perspectives and perceptions|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]]|conference=[[International Conference on Functional Programming]]|year=2010}}</ref> * [[Facebook]], which developed Flow,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/facebook/flow|title=Flow on GitHub|website=[[GitHub]] |year=2023}}</ref> Hack, Infer, Pfff, and [[Reason (programming language)|ReasonML]] in OCaml. * [[Jane Street Capital]], a [[proprietary trading]] firm, which adopted OCaml as its preferred language in its early days<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/11/138203-ocaml-for-the-masses/fulltext|title=OCaml for the Masses|author=Yaron Minsky|date=1 November 2011|access-date=2 May 2015}}</ref> and continues to use it as of 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cufp.org/2016/yaron-minsky-keynote.html|title= Keynote - Observations of a Functional Programmer|author=Yaron Minsky|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Commercial Uses of Functional Programming|year=2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite podcast|title=Signals & Threads|year=2023|publisher=[[Jane Street Capital]]|url=https://signalsandthreads.com|host=Yaron Minsky}}</ref> * [[Docker (software)|Docker]], which uses OCaml in the desktop editions on [[macOS]] and [[Windows]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-unikernels-open-source/|title=Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit|author=[[Anil Madhavapeddy]]|year=2016|publisher=[[Docker, Inc.]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/moby/vpnkit|title=VPNKit on GitHub|website=[[GitHub]] |year=2023}}</ref> In the context of Academic teaching and research, OCaml has a remarkable presence in computer science teaching programmes, both in universities and colleges. A list of educational resources and these teaching programmes can be found [https://ocaml.org/academic-users/institutions ocaml.org].
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