The easiest place to see what’s going on in the F# community is to follow the #fsharp hash tag on Twitter. The last 24hrs have been as busy as ever, to the point where it can be hard to keep up these days. Here’s some of the highlights Events Build Stu[...]

A couple of weeks ago we started the Paket project which is released on GitHub. Unfortunately GitHub doesn’t provide any download stats in the UI. A quick look at the REST API docs shows that we can retrieve the numbers via JSON. So let’s open Visual Stud[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from past weeks: News The F# community have selected a great new logo! F# logo merchandise benefiting F# Software Foundation now on www.zazzle.com, www.zazzle.co.uk , and www.zazzle.co.uk/international. Paket [...]

Well, last year’s F# tour was so much fun, I figured I would try to do it again, in Europe this time. I am becoming quite fond of F# tourism: after all, what better way to discover a place than going there and meeting locals who happen to have at least on[...]

Bit Syntax in Erlang One of the often under-appreciated features of Erlang is its Bit Syntax for parsing and pattern matching binary data at a bit level. For instance, to pare TCP segments you can write something along the line of: The same capability can[...]

Back in November last year, my eldest son and I popped over to the Insomnia Gaming Festival in Telford to take part in a game jam organised by Global GameCraft. (Today I  bumped into the source again on a USB stick). The theme for the day was “The Last A[...]

This version brings small fixes and RPC improvements

This is a bugfix release for the CS local service.

How hard is it to get started in functional programming? Let’s have a look at how quickly you can get started on a selection of simple expression-oriented programming languages. Today let’s try Clojure, Elm, F#, Haskell and OCaml. Online REPL No insta[...]

Are you working in the enterprise? Do you find yourself, day-in-day-out, up to the eyeballs in unmaintainable code? Does the once beautiful architecture now more closely resemble a big ball of mud, that no amount of tooling will dig you out of? What [...]