owenm

Three countries - England, Scotland, Wales.

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.

“These Terms don’t apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot apps or services unless that specific app or service says that these Terms apply.”

Think of Copilot being a suite of different products under the same overall banner and it starts to make (a bit) more sense.

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 parquet?

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 files, a short fsproj file and a single line of Hello World.

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

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 starting to develop what you need, and how you’re going to get started.

Are there existing COTS systems (e.g. SAP, Dynamics, Salesforce) that are extensible but can do 60% of the base functionality out of the box? Can you start by integrating two systems or using your low code platform to prove the concept? A couple of engineers/freelancers/external shop for a few months is a lot cheaper than hiring a whole development team… others in the thread have given you a reasonable estimate of that.

Think about what’s the MVP needed to start showing ROI. Maybe do a smaller business case for that.

Look at the payback period internally and ask what hurdle rate is needed to invest from your CFO.

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 helped out by you. Thanks!

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 project directory)

Start VS Code in that directory, install ionide via extensions, write code…

  dotnet run