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If someone had told me a few months ago I’d be playing with .NET again after a 15+ years hiatus I probably would have laughed at this.1 Early on in my career I played with .NET and Java, and even though .NET had done some things better than Java (as it had the opportunity to learn from some early Java mistakes), I quickly settled on Java as it was a truly portable environment. I had some C# courses in the university and I wrote my bachelor’s thesis in C#. It was a rewrite of Arch Linux’s pacman, running on Mono. This was way back in 2007. ↩
Several of my colleagues and I went to FOSDEM 2025 and met many functional programming enthusiasts, sparking great conversations for next year's FOSDEM.
OCaml Core Dev meeting at Inria yesterday. These are roughly biannual synchronous catchups which provide a chance to find out what others are up to, get feedback on any major ongoing work, and attempt to unblock some stalled PRs. Sometimes tempers get frayed, but not this time round…
Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendarfeaturing small programming puzzles created by Eric Wastl, which has been runningevery December since 2015. Being ...
