Recently I started to learn Scala (for about 2 weeks now). Here is prons and cons so far (note: I've not written any serious code yet, just have read "Scala for the impatient" and now reading "Programming in Scala" by Odersky): PronsPassing not evaluated [...]

The WebSharper project has been making significant strides of late in the realm of building composable and reactive user interfaces, especially for the purpose of building SPA-style applications. You can find documentation and demos for WebSharper.UI.Next[...]

The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a text-based protocol for test results: 1..4 ok 1 - Input file opened not ok 2 - First line of the input valid ok 3 - Read the rest of the file not ok 4 - Summarized correctly # TODO Not written yet   I think th[...]

Some time ago I compared F# and Haskell STM implementation performance. Today I'm adding Scala into it: So, it's more than two times slower than Haskell, but more than 3 times faster than F#. Interesting.

I recently presented to the Houston Functional Programmers meetup on the topic of using F# for web development. This is an update to my talks with a similar title based on my experience building a real application for Tachyus. I cover data access using th[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Enjoy F# trending projects on GitHub! CloudSharper 0.9.15.2 is released. Alea.cuBase 1.3 is released. AkkaDotNet v0.6.2 is released with improved F# support. Mono 3.6 is out, so no ne[...]

Nowadays you see plenty of stories about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment on the web, and it’s great to see that the industry is moving in this direction, with more and more focus on automation rather than hiring human[...]

This weekend I had the pleasure of sitting on the Ocean Q&A panel at Revival 2014 in Wolverhampton. I worked at Ocean in Manchester in my early 20s on titles like Jurassic Park (PC & Amiga) and Addams Family Values (SNES & Megadrive). It was fun to remini[...]

DISCLAIMER : as always, you should bench­mark against your pay­load and use case, the bench­mark num­bers I have pro­duced here is unlikely to be rep­re­sen­ta­tive of your use cases and nei­ther is any­body else’s bench­mark numbers. You can use the sim­[...]

Scala keeps surprising me. It has much good stuff that F# has. For example, I believed that statically resolved type parameters are unique to F#. Turns out this is not the case. Scala has equivalent feature called "structural types". It has nice syntax co[...]