Today, we are happy to announce a pre-release of F# 4.0 and the latest Visual F# Tools, for Visual Studio 2015 Preview. F# development tools are included in the box with the VS 2015 Preview download, but these bits were branched for stabilization some tim[...]

Today, we are happy to announce a pre-release of F# 4.0 and the latest Visual F# Tools, for Visual Studio 2015 Preview. F# development tools are included in the box with the VS 2015 Preview download, but these bits were branched for stabilization some tim[...]

This FsReveal tool stack allows you to write beautiful slides in Markdown and brings F# to the wonderful reveal.js web presentation framework. You write your slides in Markdown like the following and the rest is magic*: will turn into: Features Syntax hig[...]

There is a function I need. I know how to write it, but I don’t know if it has a standard name (like map, fold, etc.). It takes one argument — a list of something — and returns a list of 2-tuples of equal length. Each tuple contains one item from the list[...]

Last week saw the fourth instalment of the annual Progressive F# Tutorials hosted at Skills Matter in London, with 8 sessions over 2 days and 2 tracks, to a full house. 2014 has been another exciting year in the F# community, with F# specific talks featu[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Legally establishing the F# Software Foundation – FSSF needs your help. F# Advent Calendar 2014. FsReveal has just moved to fsprojects on GitHub. Elucidate – an alternative reading mo[...]

How computationally expensive are various fundamental floating point mathematical operations?  Here's a quick and dirty benchmark, which, although surely quite naive, seems to capture the rough relative cost of a few operations. Motivation This quarter I [...]

How computationally expensive are various fundamental floating point mathematical operations?  Here’s a quick and dirty benchmark, which, although surely quite naive, seems to capture the rough relative cost of a few operations. Motivation This quarte[...]

When is a string not a string? As part of my “work” on the ECMA-334 TC49-TG2 technical group, standardizing C# 5 (which will probably be completed long after C# 6 is out… but it’s a start!) I’ve had the pleasure of being exposed to some of the interesting[...]

One of the perverse side effects of code that’s “the simplest thing that could possibly work” is that it can appear much easier to create than it actually was.  I refer to this as Athena Code because it can appear as if the code sprung full-grown and read[...]