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 ...

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.

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.

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