Future Roadmap for F #

Question

Similar to these and these issues. Is there a place - official or unofficial - to learn about further developments for F # (other than waiting for the next PDC)?

I am particularly interested in the reserved keywords atomic , component , mixin , pure , trait , if there are plans to add something like Phil Bagwell's persistent data structures (as seen from Clojure or Scala) and, of course, at what time interval can we start playing with Type Providers ?

If there is no such resource, is it due to the fact that F # is being developed "behind closed doors" or simply because of the time limitations of people working on F #?

Answer 1

I use general blogs. At that time, news about new features reached one of them.

to get started http://feeds.feedburner.com/planet_fsharp

Answer 2

I think the Type Provider will be available in the coming months. otherwise, the f # command will not have enough things to show in the next PDC, which is pretty close since pdc is in September this year.

The F # team must have made a lot of great prototypes. But MS is always wary of releases, even beta versions. Only after a sufficient internal test and user reviews (MS has so many workers ..), a new feature can be released to the public.