There’s been a fair bit of activity lately from a project called ScriptCS, it allows you to put together a project using C# as a lightweight scripting language, forgoing the use of Visual Studio which can sometimes be too bloated and bulky. It also allows you to use C# in a Read Evaluate Print Loop - REPL. This is nothing new to F# and indeed lots of other languages have REPL’s too. One of the other benefits of ScriptCs is that it also integrates nicely with Nuget allowing you to use your favourite [...]

 FunScript is “a lightweight F# library that lets you rapidly develop single-page web and mobile applications”. This now has a nice new home page: http://funscript.info/  It is interesting because: It compiles F# to JavaScript (see also WebSharper) It leverages TypeScript metadata to do typed interop with JavaScript libraries through an F# type provider It supports F# type providers such as FSharp.Data for really smooth working with JSON data. It supports the usual F# goodness such as async programming, p[...]

I spent the last couple of nights putting together a simple Markdown to PDF formatter using Tomas Petricek’s FSharp.Formatting project and the PdfSharp-MigraDoc library. To use this library, you can either grab the source from the GitHub repository or get it from Nuget using the following command: F# Usage To use the library from F#, [...]

Regular readers of my blog know that from time to time I post messages about jobs related to F# for the benefit of the F# community. After my last post the lovely people at 15below asked me to mention these positions too :)  They use F# a lot. http://www.15below.com/career.asp cheers! don