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 ...

C# and TypeScript get a lot more attention, but Microsoft has also been steadily working to improve its F# programming language. The open source and cross-platform F# is officially described as a ...

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 ...

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 on ...

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The main behavioral change makes F# tuple types and System.Tuple types completely synonymous, while the Version 4.5 beta brings in Span<T> In mid-August 2018, Microsoft released the production Version ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A group of software developers dedicated to the F# ...

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Improved syntax makes it easier to work with text like CSS that contains many curly braces, while maintaining backwards compatibility with F#’s triple-quoted strings. Microsoft is previewing new ...