Greg Neverov (of active patterns fame) has placed an implementation of Software Transactional Memory for F# up on hubFS . Here's the description: I have written a library for using software transactional memory in F#. The library exposes memory...

A couple of weeks ago saw the release of the CTP of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework ( download ), This is one the major technologies currently under development at Microsoft for parallel and concurrent programming and provides a great mix...

Over on the F# team blog the Visual F# team have announced the availability of Visual F# 3.0 Beta now available in Visual Studio 11 !! The announcement is included below. This release contains the new features described below, plus all the usual F#...

I'm pleased to announce that F# 1.0.4.2 is now available from the Microsoft Research Downloads site . I'll post the release announcement and some additional notes in a follow-up shortly. This was the version that was running in our booth at TechFest 2005...

There is a nice article by Luke Hoban called F# Fundamentals in the latest edition of the MSDN magazine . F# is a new, functional and object-oriented programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework, and it’s integrated into this year’s...

I'm amazed how fast news travels in the world of blogging - an old colleague like Jonathan found out about this blog and posted some very positive comments about F# even while I thought it was still my little secret!

Ori Gershony in the Microsoft CLR team recently sent me a link to a job announcement for a position dedicated to working on Rotor , the shared source version of the Microsoft implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure . I've a soft spot...

I'd like to say a word of welcome to James Margetson , who has joined the F# team. James started with us at Microsoft Research in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago, and has a lot of experience with mixed functional/imperative programming from his days at...

Hi all, An update to the F# 1.9.3 release has been posted to the Microsoft Research Downloads site. Additional changes between1.9.3.7 and 1.9.3.14 are: Constructed classes may now be mutually recursive with other types, fixing an incompletness...

[ Updated Note: Visual Studio 2003 users : this release has an installation problem when used with Visual Studio 2003. Please see the details here for a workaround . ] [ Updated Note: Virtual PC users : The good man at JJB Research has noted that...

Wildart has been working on an F# addin for MonoDevelop for use on all platforms where Mono runs. To quote I just finished draft version of F# Addin for Monodevelop. This addin provides support of F# compiler in Monodevelop IDE. You could find new...

We are now seeking applications for two contract positions within MSR to extend the reach of F# programming! Contract length: 3-6 months Hiring Group: Microsoft Research, Redmond Location: Redmond, US or Cambridge UK. Possibility to work remotely....

Here's a link to a nice F#-Rx sample showing how to get a very nice syntax for Reactive Extensions by using F# LINQ computation expressions. (If you know Rx users who haven't yet discovered F#, this might get them interested!) open System ...

If you're writing an academic paper or journal, what should you reference for F#? Well, of course it's up to you! :-) But the topic came up here at MSR Cambridge this evening (after all, it is that time of year - POPL deadline!) Here are some options...

The F# Hub is a community site at www.hubfs.net , and has been full of interesting posts recently. For example, you can read Tomas on working with the F# quotations library (cross-posted from here ), Robert on using F# with Windows Presentation Foundation...

I'm glad to announce that F# 1.1.5.2 is now available for download from Microsoft Research . This release contains a mix of new features and bug fixes, at least some of which will be useful to nearly all F# users. The highlights are as follows: · Intellisense...

Ralf Herbrich has updated both the TrueSkill in F# and TrueSkill Through Time samples to both work with the new F# September 2008 CTP and to use unit-of-measure with the Gaussian belief distributions. Ralf says: Following the publication of...

The winners of the annual ICFP Programming Competition were announced at at ICFP 2011 in Tokyo . Two of the slides from the presentation night are below. The tsunami disaster is mentioned in the full deck, I find it hard to write this blog post, I am...

Laurent Le Brun has a very nice blog post on cross-platform graphics programming with F# and OpenGL . I love OpenGL but, until now, I used it only in C++ (plus one quick test in OCaml). I wanted to try it with F#. As OpenGL is a portable library...

Flying Flog Consulting have recently published F# for Numerics . Here's how they describe the library: Our new F# for Numerics library is a suite of numerical methods that leverage functional programming with F# ... This library implements numerical...

As reported by the Hub Father, F# 1.1.11.6 is available. This is a "release candidate", which means we put it up to see if it meets the standards of the early adopters who download and install it. Since posting on Friday we've had a few very minor issues reported - and release 1.1.11.7 will be available in about 48 hours. Downloads for both F# 1.1.11.6 and 1.1.10.4 may be found here. Here's the list of fixes we've made between F# 1.1.11.6 and F# 1.1.11.7: ......

I'm very excited to see that Jon Harrop has announced his intention to produce F# for Scientists . Jon is a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, and also the author of the absolutely must-have book Ocaml for Scientists . One...

Dominic Cooney has just produced a screen cast on Testing F# code with NUnit . There is something in this for everyone: you get to see some .NET details, a taster of F# code, the new F# Interactive toplevel environment, the F# Visual Studio integration...

F# on Silverlight 4 is here! Dmitry has the full details : Earlier this week we have released F# runtime for Silverlight 4 as part of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (this is a single download that contains everything you need...

We're very pleased to announce that F# 1.1.12 is available for download . (note: since the time of writing this has been updated to F# 1.1.12.5) This release incorporates a significant number of minor improvements combined with two new features: a...