TL;DR available at the bottom of the post. “A React Native App is a Real Mobile App” With React Native, you don’t build a “mobile web app”, an “HTML5 app”, or a “hybrid app”. You build a real mobile app that’s indistinguishable from an app built using Objective-C or Java. React Native uses the same […]

Giving good error messages is very important for modern compilers. The language Elm is famous for giving excellent user-friendly error messages. Parts of the F# community decided to improve the F# compiler messages as well. We want to make that a community effort and hope many people join us and help to make the compiler emit […]

The problem Last week most of us heard that latest npm drama where “one developer broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript“. The reason for this huge impact was that all of these projects (even infrastructure critical projects like Node) relied on the fact that packages are available on npm until the end […]

A couple of days ago I tried to fix a bug in the .NET/mono dependency manager “Paket“. The bug was a really strange edge case in Paket’s resolver algorithm that resulted in a false positive conflict (an overview about the algorithm can be found here). In other words: Paket reported a version conflict where it […]

[This post my second entry of the F# advent calendar 2015 series. You can also read the first post about “Using Async.Choice in Paket“] Recently I was asked to help with a website that was based on suave.io. The task was to transform the existing F# script based suave.io website to something that can be run […]