Joining the F# team

Now that Visual Studio 2008 is out the door it is time to celebrate and think about 'the next big thing'. As you can tell from some previous posts, F# has caught my eye.

I'm please to announce that starting Monday I'll be joining the F# team as (currently) the only full-time tester. I'm super-excited about this for many reasons, but the biggest is knowing what an impact I'll have. Without a doubt F# will change the .Net landscape by reaching out to a new breed developer and enabling new scenarios. As we evolve the language into a v1.0 form and build out the first set of core libraries I think people will be pleasantly surprised by the power and elegance of F#.

Another reason why I'm so excited to be joining the F# team is that I'll be working with an stellar group of people. Evidently having an MSDN blog is a team requirement...

• Don Syme (MSR) - https://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/
• Luke Hoban (PM) - https://blogs.msdn.com/lukeh/
• Jomo Fisher (Dev) - https://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher

So in the coming weeks and months I'll be blogging about some of the unique testing challenges of a functional language compiler as well as continue showing how to write toy apps in F#. Until then, have a great day and feel free to log any bugs against the latest F# CTP. If the quality is anything less than amazing, now you have someone to complain to ;)

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2007
  "As we evolve the language into a v1.0 form" Given that the current version is 1.9.2, does this mean a big rollback? :)

• Anonymous
  November 30, 2007
  Congratulations!  Didn't realize you were switching.