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F# and .NET in Social Gaming, June 28, SkillsMatter, London

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The next F#unctional Londoners' meetup has been announced!  It's a great topic, talking about how to apply F# and .NET programming to one of the booming areas of game development. 

Sign up here: <www.meetup.com/FSharpLondon/events/68564812/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af_eid=68564812&_af=event>

 

Yan Cui on F# and .NET in Social Gaming

Thursday, June 28, 2012, 6:30 PM, The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120, Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP. London (map)

The social gaming landscape often paints a picture of cloud computing, NoSQL databases, and PHP! With over 3 million monthly users and 2 games inside the top 30 grossing apps on Facebook, GameSys is a company that's finding its feet amongst the leaders in the field. In this session, Yan will share some insight into how GameSys uses a polyglot stack evolving around .Net to build their games and the different kinds of scalability and big data challenges they have to face for each game.

Yan is a C#/F# developer working for GameSys, his focus is on building highly distributed and scalable server-side solutions for their social games on  Facebook.

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  • Anonymous
    June 18, 2012
    Hi Don! I wrote a post about how XNA and F# could be made practical for game development by enabling incremental GC for .NET (perhaps using the train algorithm). I figured I'd post a link to it here - forums.create.msdn.com/.../103653.aspx As you can see from the discussion, there are some technical difficulties to this, some general opposition (both warranted and not), and some demand for it already. We need incremental GC on .NET to utilize modern and FP techniques in soft-real time software such as games. Otherwise we're stuck using static, imperative programming techniques. I've considered moving my F# code over to OCaml as it does have such a GC, considered trying to find someone to implement an incremental GC on mono (or to start myself), but I'm still holding out hope the .NET GC can be augmented to provide said algorithm. I love F# and .NET more than any other technologies I use - I hope someone, somewhere in a position of influence in Microsoft can get some traction for this. Cheers!
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    October 11, 2012
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