Fol­low on from my pre­vi­ous test which showed that the ServiceStack.Text JSON seri­al­izer was the top dog in town, I came across a lit­tle library called fastJ­son on code­plex so nat­u­rally I had to test it out and see how it com­pares to the rest! So using my Sim­ple­SpeedTester and repeat­ing the same test as [...]

This article introduces the matrix type available in F# PowerPack. It discusses how to create matrices, manipulate matrices using indexing and slices and how to use built-in functions for working with them. As a running example, we use matrix to represent a graph using an adjacency matrix.

Indexer If your have a type that represents a collection of values, adding a custom indexer gives you a natural way to index directly into the object using the .[ ] operator. Take this simple Calendar class for instance, which keeps a map (F# equivalent of a Dictionary<TKey, TValue>) of notes against DateTime values: By [...]

The MonoDevelop team have taken a leaf out of the Visual Studio team's book and started MonoDevelop User Voice. Here you can vote on MonoDevelop features and discuss them. One of the hot ticket items you might like to vote for right now is Full Support for F# from MonoDevelop. This would presumably build on this great initial work, which is now on GitHub. Don