I see a lot of problems which look somewhat different at first glance, but all have the same cause: Text is losing "special characters" when I transfer it from one computer to another Decryption ends up with garbage Compressed data can’t be decompressed I[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# is now available in .NET Fiddle (Live Validation, IntelliSense, Share and Collaborate). Try F# on any device! F# plugin for Light Table was announced. A new site “Community for F#”[...]

Define Usually, you do not need to define custom exceptions during programming in F#. If you do scripting in F#, in the most cases you will be happy with standard .NET exception types and F# built-in helper functions. But when you create a custom library [...]

A couple of months ago, I started working on an F# decision tree & random forest library, and pushed a first draft out in July 2013. It was a very minimal implementation, but it was a start, and my plan was to keep refining and add features. And then life[...]

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been building my own parser, interpreter and compiler for Small Basic, a dialect of BASIC with only 14 keywords aimed at beginners. Despite, or perhaps because of, Small Basic’s simplicity some really fun programs have b[...]

After my talk last night, several people expressed an interest in the script I was using to draw the LINQ expression trees. I have uploaded here on github. This is just a script I use in development. It doesn't visualize every node by a long shot, and doe[...]

As part of a longer process of making FSharpx better maintainable I created a new project called FSharp.Configuration. It contains type providers for the configuration of .NET projects: AppSettings (extracted from FSharpx) ResX (by Phil Trelford) Yaml (by[...]

As I begin to write this, I'm in a small cubicle in Philadelphia airport, on my way back from CodeMash - a wonderful conference (yet again) which I feel privileged to have attended. Personal top highlights definitely include Dustin Campbell's talk on C# 6[...]

I’m happy to annouce the new release of the FSharpx.Collections package on nuget. Most important changes: We extracted all collections into a new repositiory. We have documentation and samples (even for C#). PersistentVector<T> doesn’t require equality co[...]