The sands of the IT world are shifting, as the cloud and mobile move from being secondary to the old n-tier+web model that's dominated for much of the last decade. That sea change is shifting the ...

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Functional programming is a coding style that emphasizes ideas such as composition from simple building blocks, immutability of data structures and the use of functions as data. In recent years, ideas ...

A recent survey sheds light on how developers are currently using F# and what frustrates them the most about it When you think about programming languages used in the enterprise, names like Java, C, ...

F# is growing in usage, and many developers are anxious to find out what it can do. So I asked Don Syme, the creator of F#, and his team some questions about the language. Q: Why was F# created? What ...

F# 8, a new edition of Microsoft’s open-source, “functional-first” programming language, now is generally available, emphasizing simpler, more uniform, and more performant F# programming. F# 8 has ...

Design goals for the new version were to make it simpler, more performant, easier to learn, and more uniform and interoperable with other .NET languages. F# 6, an upgrade to Microsoft’s open source, ...