Visual Studio now has a great site where you can enter and vote on features for languages and otehr aspects of Visual Studio.  Submit and Vote on F# and Visual Studio Features Here! Please take the time to vote on features and submit new ones. This is a [...]

We've previously blogged about FSharpChart, an F# library that makes it easy to use F# for information-rich programming. FSharpChart works well with the Interactive Window, helping you prototype your code quickly. We're happy to announce an update to the [...]

Ever since it was announced that Dart would be announced at GOTO conference I’ve been wonder what dart would be like. I thought I’d take the time put down my initial thoughts here. Is there a need for another language? Tim Anderson poses the question ni[...]

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. Dr. Alan Kay, http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

I’ve been playing with Iteratees lately in my work with Dave on fracture-io. The Iteratee module used in this post is part of the FSharpx library and provides a set of types and functions for building compositional, input processing components. A fold, by[...]

In F#, you have the choice of using a struct or a record as a lightweight container for data. The similarities between the two are striking – both are immutable by default, neither can be inherited, and they both offer structural equality semantics by def[...]

In my previous post on discriminated unions, I presented discriminated unions as an alternative to standard .Net classes to represent hierarchical data structures. However, in terms of data structure, discriminated unions share much more similarities with[...]

I’ve renamed the dotnet-console project on github to isop. Isop is the swedish name for hyssop. Like any spice it is intended to give flavor to the development of command line apps in .net.