This minor release of CloudSharper alpha focuses on a few long-standing bug fixes, as well as the addition of the "Search and replace" functionality in the editor.

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This is a brain dump from a Twitter/IRC discussion with @panesofglass and @bryanedds. So there is this brand-new thing called Facebook React and hype wave about Virtual DOM. I only skimmed this library, but here are some reasons why I remain sceptical: Identity! Typical DOM trees are a lot more than the markup. They are full of pieces of state that are *opaque* - abstract types, and *mutable*. This is especially true if you use 3rd-party libraries, but even with vanilla DOM, input tag, once rendered, int[...]

How I started programming: well there was some Basic, Pascal and PHP, but I started getting serious only after encountering and trying to understand Haskell, while doing grad school for an unrelated subject. Haskell challenged me, somehow. It looked like nothing I have seen before. And playing with it had that feeling of figuring out a puzzle. How I found Haskell: going through the list of languages that Kate or some such editor supported highlighting for. Yeah, I know.. In alphabetic order. F# was not o[...]