Alfonso García-Caro Núñez is a linguist who, in recent years, changed the study of natural languages by the practice of their programming counterparts. He currently focuses on JavaScript and .NET development and has worked on developing mobile, web, and desktop applications for several industries, such as video games, education, green energy, or digital performances. He is also an international speaker who has presented at several conferences around the globe. His admiration for both the thriving JavaScript ecosystem and functional programming with F# made him look for a way to bring together both worlds, leading to the creation of Fable, an F# to JavaScript compiler that is attracting lot of attention from the community, and integrates the power and elegance of F# with the hundreds of JavaScript tools and libraries available.
I would like to say a big thank you to all the members of the incredibly supportive and welcoming F# community. Since my first timid steps into functional programming, I have been always encouraged to give my opinion and contribute to the development of the ecosystem and the language itself. Features and tools are important, but it is openness and collaboration that really makes you proud to belong to a community. Neither this book nor anything else in my life would have been possible without the care and love of my family. I dedicate this as well as all my work to the women of my life: my mother, wife, and daughter.
Suhaib Fahad is an entrepreneur and is running a startup; he is also an expert F# programmer and enthusiast, using F# in various domains within the products that he is building. He is extremely passionate about developing in functional languages and loves to engage with developers of different communities. He has also been researching and working with cloud scale applications since 2012. Fahad lives in Bangalore, the IT hub of India, with his wife and baby boy.