As someone doing programming language research, I find it really interesting to think about how programming language research is done, how it has been done in the past and how it should be done. This kind of questions are usually asked by philosophy of science, but only a few people have discussed this in the context of computing (or even programming languages). So, my starting point was to look at the classic works in the general philosophy of science and see which of these could tell us something about[...]

Paul Schoenfelder and I are sort of trying to get more Windows developers to take a look at Elixir.  We both think Elixir’s got a great story to tell and Windows developers will be very excited when they find out more about it. In that spirit, we’ve updated the Chocolatey NuGet package for Elixir to […]

At last, the long wait is fianlly over! After 4 years of waiting, the fully managed implementation of the C# compiler [codenamed "Roslyn"][roslyn] has been finally released. In the recent months, "Roslyn" has been slowly turning into [vaporware][vaporware], but thanks to the recent breakthrough, the team made an enormous progress over the last two months and even implemented a number of new C# 6.0 features. The C# 6.0 compiler, together with the full source code has been released today! UPDATE: In [...]

Faisal Waris has published a very interesting Experience Report on using F# on Android with the Xamarin tools. It is fabulous to again see independent confirmation of the value of F# in the mobile computing space. TL;DR: F# and Xamarin triumphed. I can’t imagine writing such a complex mobile app in another language. Instead of 6K, equivalent Java code would be in the 50K LOC range and of untenable complexity. I think F# is a great language for mobile computing. It is surprising how much you can do on these[...]