Previous version: New features in F# 4.1 With the March 2018 release of Visual Studio 2017 15.6, Microsoft has made foundational changes to the F# language and core library.

F# is heavily inspired by the OCaml programming language, and a subset of F# and OCaml are largely compatible. F# offers developers many valuable and compelling features without sacrificing much ...

Functional programming languages were, until recently, languages for computer science. Based on a pure mathematical approach to programming, they were the basis of much modern computer science ...

Speaking at the VSLive New York conference here on Sept. 8, Luke Hoban, the F# program manager at Microsoft, said F# is a functional programming language for .NET, which will join C# and Visual ...

Pure functional programming language implementations have no side effects and essentially use immutable, single assignments. That is, you can set X to 1 but once it is set it cannot be changed.

News What's New in Microsoft's F# Language for Functional-First Programming By David Ramel 11/06/2023 C# and TypeScript get a lot more attention, but Microsoft has also been steadily working to ...

A developer planning to use Fable lauded the union between F# and JavaScript. “When talking about programming languages, people often forget how important the ecosystem around the language is.

Much has been made of Microsoft's embrace of open source and shift toward interoperability and collaboration, and that trend is exemplified in the new preview release of F#. F# is a functional ...

In March of 2013, F# was ranked 69 on the index. The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month.