InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.

F# is a strongly typed, functional-first programming language for writing simple code to solve complex problems. From the business perspective, the primary role of F#, pronounced F sharp, is to ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming ...

F# supports financial modeling and analysis, scientific data analysis, algorithms and academic computing. F# is a functional programming language for .NET.

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike ...

Tomas Petricek demoes server-side and client-side asynchronous programming with non-blocking code and without inversion of control in F#.

Viegas says the latest Try F# platform will encourage innovation in the big data realm by bridging the gap between the developer community and “the people who are really, really knowledgeable about ...

In mid-August 2018, Microsoft released the production Version 4.5 of F#, which supports the Span value type from .Net Core to improve code. Current version: What’s new in F# 4.5 Span, aka Span ...

The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.

Integrates the F# language into Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Corp. is boosting integration of functional programming with its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform.