Fans of different programming languages always argue about benefits of their language of choice. It is difficult to use objective criteria in a debate like this. Terms like 'clarity' or 'maintainability' are too vague and subjective. What if we used s[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Visual Studio “14″ CTP was released. Do not forget to vote on F# Language features and participate in discussions. Working draft of F# 3.1 language specification was published. F# Eve[...]

So NDC Oslo 2014’s finished, it was the first time I’ve attended the conference and I must say it has been a fantastic experience for me. No only was I given the privilege to see so many smart people talking about interesting topics happening in our field[...]

This is the fourth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Nimrod: A new approach to meta programming Andreas Rumpf Homepage · Slides · Presentation N[...]

This is a bugfix release.

WebSharper is getting support for Mono, MonoDevelop, Xamarin Studio, CloudSharper on Linux and Mac OS X, improved bindings to D3.js and Leaflet.js. On performance side, we are experimenting with ASM.js for numeric code. For this summer, there are plans fo[...]

I've been involved with World Singles for about five years now, about three and a half years as a full-time engineer. The project was a green field rewrite of a dating system the company had evolved over about a decade that, back in 2009, was running on C[...]

This is a bugfix version after yesterday's bigger release.

(Note that I'm not talking about "processing collections in parallel, which is definitely not an anti-pattern...) I figured it was worth starting to blog about anti-patterns I see frequently on Stack Overflow. I realize that some or all of these patterns[...]