Microsoft shipped an update to its functional programming language, incorporating Span support in the new F# 4.5. Described as "the largest piece of F# 4.5," Span support aligns the open source ...

Microsoft's F# functional programming language now lets Visual Studio coders target .NET Core and .NET Standard projects. That functionality is found in the latest preview release of the flagship IDE, ...

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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 ...

F# makes it easy to write concise code to solve complex problems on all the major desktop and mobile platforms, primarily using functional programming F# is a strongly typed, functional-first ...

F# Interactive programming can be used from .Net Core, a capability that is in a preview stage. A preview of the nameof function, a convenience to help with logging the names of parameters or classes, ...

Microsoft has added a new language to the stable that will be supported by its Visual Studio development platform. The newest member of the family is F#, the hybrid functional/object-oriented language ...