It’s been some time since I blogged regularly.  Here’s why I got a Twitter account, and use it all the time for technical communication The Visual F# Tools Blog and then the .NET blog are major ways of communication about F# work at Microsoft Just about everything in .NET and Visual F# Tools work at Microsoft went open...

I’m pleased to report that our paper Types from data: Making structured data first-class citizens in F# won a Distinguished Paper award at PLDI 2016 in Santa Barbara. The paper also has a page on Tomas Petricek’s blog.       The .NET and Managed Languages team have been a huge part of making F#...

[ The opinions here are entirely my own etc etc. ] Dear World, With regard to this InfoQ article…  I’ve said this a few times before, but please use the terminology “Visual F#” or “The Visual F# Tools” when talking about F# at Microsoft. And somehow make sure people reporting on an event do the same :)  F# as a language is fully independent, cross-platform, open source and multi-vendor (multiple packagings based on the same shared open implementation): it’s existence as a language and ecosystem does not fu[...]

[ The opinions here are entirely my own etc etc. ] Dear World, With regard to this InfoQ article…  I’ve said this a few times before, but please use the terminology “Visual F#” or “The F# Tools for Visual Studio” when talking about F# at Microsoft. And somehow make sure people reporting on an event do the...

Microsoft Research is looking for development engineers in Cambridge, UK!  Applications now open! Microsoft Research has been working in Cambridge for 17 years to advance the state of the art in Computer Science and to feed the best of technology into Microsoft’s products.  Today around 200 staff work at our centrally positioned lab, in the heart of Cambridge’s new CB1 business district by the railway station. We work on innovative, cool technologies that you’ve heard of, such as Microsoft Kinect, F#, .NET[...]