First-Class Windows: Building a Roadmap for OCaml on Windows

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Project goal is to make Windows a tier‑1 OCaml platform and the team reports concrete progress: opam 2.2 now installs and runs on Windows, a survey finds ~60% of users on Windows and 75% of respondents had installation problems (pre‑opam 2.2), and 90% want a better developer experience. Workstreams include experiments with DKML, WSL, Docker and cross‑compilation, adding Windows checks to opam health runs, a paper‑cuts repo for breakages, and a Windows working group.

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1. 0:00First-Class Windows project
2. 1:30OCaml on Windows importance
3. 3:19OCaml on Windows state
4. 5:06Pre-OPAM 2.2 Windows workarounds
5. 6:32Windows challenges survey
6. 9:24OCaml vs other Windows languages
7. 12:38Windows platform tools and CI
8. 14:03Missing Windows libraries
9. 15:52Breaking Windows support cycle
10. 17:19Windows roadmap
11. 18:45Q&A: Native binaries vs WSL