Don Syme

April 29, 2024

Copilot Workspace represents a radically new way of building software with natural language, and is expressly designed to deliver–not replace–developer creativity, faster and easier than ever before. With Copilot Workspace we will empower more experienced developers to operate as systems thinkers, and…

March 23, 2023

Following on from its success among developers with Copilot, GitHub has announced the next stage, Copilot X, which is designed to expand beyond the realms of code auto-completion. ...

March 22, 2023

GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, the Microsoft-owned company is launching a code-centric…

November 8, 2022

We’re happy to announce the availability of F# 7, shipping with .NET 7 and Visual Studio 2022. Check out this next step to making it easier for you to write robust, succinct and performant code. You can get F# 7…

December 27, 2021

F# 6 brings a wealth of new features to the language, library, and tooling aimed at improving performance and making it simpler for programmers wishing to switch to it. F# 6 adopts a new foundation for concurrency based on resumable code, which is a high-performance…

November 8, 2020

At the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, streamed online last week, Microsoft released the much-awaited .NET 5, along with new major .NET language versions (C# 9 and F# 5), ASP.NET Core 5, and Entity Framework Core 5.0. New versions of Visual Studio 2019 were also released…

September 24, 2019

August 5, 2018

Recently, Microsoft has announced the new language version of F# called F# 4.5. The F# 4.5 has been developed completely through an open request for comments (RFC) process, with significant contributions from the community, particularly in feature discussions and demonstrating…

July 1, 2015

Don Syme named one of three winners of the prestigious UK Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for 2015 for an outstanding personal contribution to engineering by an early to mid-career engineer resulting in market exploitation. Read more >