# Getting Started with OCaml and OPAM

DevFeed: [Getting Started with OCaml and OPAM](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ocaml-for-the-impatient-32128.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://adambard.com/blog/getting-started-with-ocaml/>)

Published: 2017-08-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Adam Bard](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/adam-bard.md>)

Topics: [OCaml](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ocaml.md>)

Tags: [getting-started](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/getting-started.md>), [install](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/install.md>), [ocaml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ocaml.md>)

## AI overview

A beginner-oriented guide to setting up OCaml with OPAM, selecting an OCaml version, creating a project directory, adding source files, and preparing a local OPAM project.

## Source excerpt

Ocaml is a rad language with some regrettably underdocumented parts. Or, perhaps, overdocumented - since OCaml attracts people who are interested in rigorous correctness, what documentation exists tends to be rigorous and correct, and also tedious. This guide will be none of those. Let's go!