This article is a follow up to my previous blog post about functional library design, but you do not need to read the previous one, because I'll focus on a different topic. In the previous article, I wrote about a couple of principles that I find useful when designing libraries in a functional style. This follows from my experience with building F# libraries, but the ideas are quite general and can be useful in any programming language. Previously, I wrote how multiple layers of abstraction let you bu[...]

Over the last few years, I created or contributed to a number of libraries including F# Data for data access, Deedle for exploratory data science with C# and F#, Markdown parser and code-formatter F# Formatting and other fun libraries such as one for composing 3D objects used in my Christmas blog post. Building libraries is a fun and challenging task - even if we ignore all the additional things that you need to get right such as testing, documentation and building (see my earlier blog post) and focus[...]

Over the last few years, I created or contributed to a number of libraries including F# Data for data access, Deedle for exploratory data science with C# and F#, Markdown parser and code-formatter F# Formatting and other fun libraries such as one for composing 3D objects used in my Christmas blog post. Building libraries is a fun and challenging task - even if we ignore all the additional things that you need to get right such as testing, documentation and building (see my earlier blog post) and focus jus[...]

There is a bunch of visualization and charting libraries for F#. Sadly, perhaps the most advanced one, F# Charting, does not work particularly well outside of Windows at the moment. There are also some work-in-progress libraries based on HTML like Foogle Charts and FsPlot, which are cross-platform, but not quite ready yet. Before Christmas, I got a notification from GitHub about a pull request for a simple gnuplot wrapper that I wrote a long time ago (and which used to be carfully hidden on CodePlex). [...]

I guess that it might be a bit too late for adding to your list of new year's resulution now. But just if you still have an empty slot (or in case an originally taken slot has become available), your new year's resolution should be to get involved with F#! Obviously, the goal of this blog post is to sell you some of my F# trainings and other materials - including the online course on F# in Finance and our FastTrack to F# course in London and New York and also the F# Deep Dives book. But to conceal this [...]