Celebrating the F# 9 Release: A Tribute to Our Contributors #17996

vzarytovskii · 2024-11-13T13:04:04Z

We would like to take a moment and thank all of our contributors and congratulate them with successful release of F# 9.

F# is historically developed as a collaboration between the .NET Foundation, the F# Software Foundation, their members, and other contributors, including Amplifying F# and Microsoft. The F# community is involved at all stages of innovation, design, implementation, and delivery, and we’re proud to be a contributing part of this community.

Between October 2023 and October 2024, the dotnet/fsharp repository tracks 28 contributors with commits in that period. On top of that, there are numerous contributors filing issues, raising and voting on suggestions, and contributing to feature design.

We would like to highlight our top OSS contributors including, but not limited to Brian Rourke Boll, Edgar Gonzalez, Eugene Auduchinok, Florian Verdonck, dawe, Jakub Majocha, Martin, Alex Berezhnykh and more, please see full list at the end of the post.

Again, a huge thank you all - this release wouldn't have been possible without you!

Contributor showcase

We would also like to, as we did in our last release, highlight individuals who contribute to F#, and publish a short text about them using their own words.

Brian Rourke Boll

I’m Brian, a wannabe linguist turned software engineer living in Michigan, USA. I’m a fan of F#, functional programming, and thinking of ways to write slightly-less-bad code.
Professionally, I’ve gone from studying and teaching the Irish language, to building distributed financial systems in F# at Rocket Mortgage, to wrangling ordering scale and performance at Olo.
I’ve really enjoyed actively contributing to the F# open-source ecosystem in the past year. I’ve found that, with an itch to make things better, a good dose of persistence, some encouragement from people like the Amplifying F# crew and the F# team, and a bit of hubris, it’s possible to make real improvements to the language and tooling.

Alex Berezhnykh (DedSec256)

Hello! My name is Alexey Berezhnykh, and I work on F# support in JetBrains Rider. I have first met with F# during one of the courses at university, and it was love at first sight! That's why I decided to focus my undergraduate thesis on F#. This led me to JetBrains under the supervision of Eugene Auduchinok, and the topic of my work was «Hosting type providers out-of-process» in Rider, where I made my first contributions to dothet/fsharp. Later, this topic continued in my master's degree thesis, which was focused on cross-project analysis for generative type providers in C#. Since then, together with many people from around the world, we've made numerous interesting improvements and features for the language and tooling, and I believe there's much more to come!

Below is the whole list of contributors of the dotnet/fsharp repository over the F# 9 development period, listed in alphabetical order.