Today's update features an enhanced installer, smoother Markdown and HTML editing, and some more bug fixes.

One day since the first alpha release, and already the first bug reports -- and fixes.

We are excited to announce the first release of CloudSharper Local, a spin-off of CloudSharper that uses your local machine to serve the main CloudSharper front-end. CloudSharper is an awesome new way to work with F# on the web. It enables you to use F# to easily connect to various data sources and visualize data from those data sources in rich HTML5 charts and diagrams. You can also develop HTML5 games, web and mobile applications in pure F# code, and you will feel more productive than ever. CloudSharper[...]

Many applications want to use multiple cores to execute faster, while retaining the same observable behavior as the sequential version. In this blog I develop a simple F# workflow builder, slightly resembling Async, that allows deterministic logging in presence of parallelism: logs order is entirely determined by the program source (sequential semantics), yet they are available as soon as possible, and the execution model is parallel.

We are happy to announce the availability of the most recent WebSharper update, version 2.5.93, released on Feb 4, 2014. This release brings a new and improved optimizer for the Core language that is used as an intermediate form during compilation to JavaScript. The optimizer is able to eliminate more JavaScript expressions, generates more readable code, and improves JavaScript performance of numeric code (such as code using for loops heavily) by 30-50%.