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Three countries - England, Scotland, Wales.

No, I’m saying that MS have different terms for their business and personal offerings (as do OpenAI and Anthropic). To be fair to them, MS are quite open about accuracy for the bus…

As far as I can tell, this is only for the free personal plan, not any of the business offerings (ie not Copilot for M365) and Github Copilot is under a separate set of terms. “The…

Any plans to make it available to other languages via bindings?

I feel a bit sad since I hadn't heard of Gel Data until today, but it's too late... seems like they had some interesting stuff in progress.

This is super interesting - aside from the benchmarks are there any good examples of loading and querying data from external sources? Any plans to support other formats like parque…

I hear you on the opportunity side and I can't see that changing. The good news is in recent releases there's a lot less boilerplate - "dotnet new console -lang F#" results in two …

The Interlisp VM sounds awesome - I would love to see Notecards on Windows/Linux/Mac natively!

This is an impressive achievement, given there’s a whole language plus IDE. Kudos to the author. I couldn’t see any indication of what the author plans to use it for - I hope he ca…

I would start with a business case - what are the benefits, is it going to generate revenue or reduce costs, when do the benefits start to be realised. Then look at the cost in sta…

FWIW, I started programming F# during your tenure at MS and in a couple of years it became a really capable cross platform option - partly MS, partly community, but definitely help…

Starting with F# on Mac is worlds away from what it was in the past, I bet you could be up and running in 5 minutes: brew install dotnet-sdk dotnet new console -lang F# (in your pr…

This was me - my first .net language was F# (although I'd dabbled a tiny bit in C#); it was hard to learn the .net standard library as well as trying to learn functional idioms...

Very interesting - thanks! It's an interesting exercise thinking through some of the constraints and some of the engineering tradeoffs. Out of interest, how much development is act…

As a thought experiment, this got me thinking what would a solution just using .NET core look like? Obviously I don't have all the details but I think you can do all of those thing…

I really like Azure Container Apps for this. It's a great way to dip into the world of containers.

Yes, you're right - I'm not from the US, but I think it's the classic example...

It's a diaeresis symbol rather than an umlaut, used (infrequently) to show that it's pronounced co-or rather than coor. Quite archaic, unless you're the New York Times, who use it …

Of course, Teams uses SharePoint for file storage, so it’s basically the same thing for Microsoft, build on the things you have already.

I used to use Visual Studio and VSMac for my F# experimentation. Over the past couple of years, Ionide has got so much better that I've switched completely over to it from VS for a…

I was in a similar position when I started learning F# - I'd say start with F#, but you will likely need to be able to read through some of the C# examples to work out how to do co…