So one of the things I’ve done recently to help me to learn a new language is to tackle creating certain data structures and common operations on those structures in a given language.  And lately I’ve been digging Elixir quite a bit.  So I decided to tackle one of the easiest things I could tackle–a […]

For any of you that are aware of the newly updated Xamarin Web site, you may have seen the following: Objective-C was ahead of its time 30 years ago. C# is ahead of its time today. Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java, you can do in C# with Xamarin—usually more succinctly and with fewer bugs. What is also true is that F# is way ahead of its time, and you can produce even more succinct code with even fewer bugs than C#!

With the release of Xamarin 3 we have a swathe of new features to the platform, but obviously the most important one is obviously F# support is now included by default in Xamarin Studio so there is no escape from the awesomeness of F#! So what else have we got, well loads of other goodies too like Xamarin Designer for iOS, Xamarin.Forms, Major IDE enhancements, Improved code sharing with PCL and Shared projects, and BCL Documentation. You can see the release blog post here: announcing Xamarin 3 Ther[...]