We are happy to announce the latest release of CloudSharper, version 0.9.7, bringing a new type checking and code assistance engine for F# projects. This last week we have been working hard on moving CloudSharper to FCS (FSharp.Compiler.Service), and with this current release much of the migration work is completed. As a result, the type checker in F# projects is considerably faster, and code assistance features are available in more locations that in previous CloudSharper releases.

As of 0.9.5, you need to do a build (Ctrl+B) before type checking is initialized properly. Without such explicit build, you may face a whole host of errors while you edit your source files.

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[...]

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%.