Internship Project: Developing Refactoring Tools for Merlin OCaml Language Server
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Summary
This article details an internship project focused on developing refactoring tools for Merlin, the OCaml language server. The intern worked on integrating robust refactoring features to improve developer experience, including commands for renaming occurrences, substituting typed holes with expressions, and case analysis for pattern matching. The project aims to bring Merlin's refactoring capabilities closer to those found in popular editors like IntelliJ and language-specific tools like Gleam.
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Even though OCaml has some features related to refactoring (such as renaming occurrences, substituting typed holes with expressions, and case analysis for pattern matching)
The goal of my internship was to kickstart work on a robust set of features to enable the smooth integration of multiple complementary refactoring support commands
As part of my Tarides internship on improving user experience with a new command
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