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

Functional programming has been viewed as valuable in domains such as the financial and scientific realms as well as technical computing. Microsoft has described F# as combining type safety ...

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 ...

Accompanying .NET 9 are new releases of the C# and F# programming languages. For C# 13, the focus was on features to make it easier, faster, and safer for developers to write code in preferred styles.

The open source project .NET for Apache Spark has debuted in version 1.0, finally vaulting the C# and F# programming languages into Big Data first-class citizenship. Spearheaded by Microsoft and the ...

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