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What is F#?

F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language. It empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable and robust code.

F# is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.

F# Pros & Cons

Pros of F#

  • ✓Pattern-matching
  • ✓Makes programming fun again
  • ✓Type providers
  • ✓Delightful
  • ✓Frictionless
  • ✓Static type inference
  • ✓Composable
  • ✓Ml syntax
  • ✓REPL
  • ✓Succinct

Cons of F#

  • ✗Microsoft tend to ignore F# preferring to hype C#
  • ✗Interop between C# can sometimes be difficult
  • ✗Hype
  • ✗Type Providers can be unstable in larger solutions

F# Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to F#?

JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

HTML5

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

PHP

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Java

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

TypeScript

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

F# Integrations

Continuous, FStar, BenchmarkDotNet, .NET for Apache Spark, Ionide and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with F#. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with F#.

Continuous
Continuous
FStar
FStar
BenchmarkDotNet
BenchmarkDotNet
.NET for Apache Spark
.NET for Apache Spark
Ionide
Ionide
MonoDevelop
MonoDevelop
canopy
canopy
ML.NET
ML.NET
WebSharper
WebSharper
.NET
.NET
.NET Core
.NET Core
Fable.io
Fable.io

F# Discussions

Discover why developers choose F#. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

dustinmoris
dustinmoris

Dec 3, 2018

Needs adviceon.NET.NETF#F#C#C#

I've used .NET for many years, but only in recent years, after Microsoft introduced .NET Core, I've found a new love and excitement for the technology again. The main driver for us using .NET Core is not that it is cross platform compatible, open source or blazingly fast (which it is!), but the fact that we can use (what we consider) the best programming languages (mainly F# and C#) to carry out our jobs without sacrificing the other benefits.

Today we run most of our web infrastructure on .NET Core in Docker containers, deployed into a Kubernetes cluster which spans across multiple time zones in the Google Cloud and we couldn't be happier. Due to the portability of the .NET Core platform we are even able to develop many new services as serverless functions with F# which has become an absolute game changer.

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