Once I saw it's a Czech university course using F#, I knew Tomáš Petříček would be the lecturer :)
A couple years back, I wrote a compiler of tiny-ish Scala subset in F# (the code is imperative, though)[1]
Repo with slides: https://github.com/jinyus/Fsharp-Teaching
Some more information can be found at https://github.com/tpetricek/Teaching (specifically, https://github.com/tpetricek/Teaching/tree/master/2023/tiny-...). The course is currently ongoing. The videos and PDFs seem to be down, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's just because of hacker news overloading things.
Seems neat, from the slides and demos.
I can recommend it to CUNI students interested in programming languages. It should run again in 2025/26 (at least according to current plans).
I'd advise Cuni to host the course on something like EdX/Coursera/... to:
a) Increase the visibility of the university
b) Allow students to go through the course asynchronously
c) Provide certificates for completing the course and possibly recuperate some money off of that :)
Will recordings be available after it ends?
My plan was to take a look at OCaml for future tinkerings with parsers, but man, F# is already looking very familiar between TypeScript and Lex/Yacc-like things.
Thanks for this post, I think I might have a new favorite language in the oven!
[0] https://github.com/williamcotton/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/pl...
[1] https://github.com/williamcotton/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/pl...
The course will be taught in alternating years with Programming language design (NPRG075). It will not run in 2024/25.
:(Really cool content though. Kinda wish I could have joined.
There is a beautiful functional MVU wrapper around it called Avalonia.FuncUI[2] with Avalonia.FuncUI.Elmish[3] which is an implementation of Elmish[4] (based of the Elm language[4]) for F#.
[2]: https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI/
[3]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Avalonia.FuncUI.Elmish and https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI/tree/master/sr...