Earlier this week I gave a talk at the first London WebSharper User Group meetup about WebSharper 2.0 and some of its new features such as sitelets and the new Visual Studio templates. This was a longer, class-like talk with many technical points discussed - a great source of information for anyone interested in WebSharper.

We are making excellent progress on releasing WebSharper 2.0 in the coming weeks, and have just put out the first beta version of WebSharper 2.0, ready for some public testing and community feedback. Here are the links:

In this article, we look at the internals of asynchronous programming models in F# and a future version of C#. We compare the compilation in C# (based on state machines) and the compilation in F# (based on combinators) and we look at advantages and disadvantages of both of the approaches.

WebSharper talk at Sinergija 2010, Community Track.

Having spent quite a bit of time coding in F# recently I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience of coding in a functional style and come to really like the fact you can do so much with so little code. One of the counter-claims against F# has always been the concerns over performance in the most [...]