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F# 6 is released as part of .NET 6. You'll find new task based async, pipeline debugging, and tons of other features!

F# 6 is now a release candidate. Checkout all of the new features available in this release.

Want to learn how to write write succinct, robust, and performant code with F#? Here's everything you need to get started today!

Save the date July 29 for .NET Conf: Focus on F#, a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on and using the F# language.

The specification defines many floating point types, including: , , and . Most developers are familiar with (equivalent to in C#) and (equivalent to in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many applications. .NET has always had and and with .NET 5 Preview 7, we've added a ne...

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we're announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you've used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you'll already be familiar with the concept of a DataFrame. At a...

You can now write .NET Code in Jupyter Notebooks. Try .NET has grown to support more interactive experiences across the web with runnable code snippets, interactive documentation generator for .NET core with dotnet try global tool, and now .NET in Jupyter Notebooks. And you can get started with it today!

TL;DR We've moved the F# GitHub repository from microsoft/visualfsharp to dotnet/fsharp, as specified in the corresponding RFC. F# has a somewhat strange history in its name and brand. If we roll back the clocks to the year 2015, F# sort of had two identities. One side of this was Visual F#, or "VisualFSharp"; a product within Visual Studio ...

We're excited to announce general availability of F# 4.6 and the F# tools for Visual Studio 2019! In this post, I'll show you how to get started, explain the F# 4.6 feature set, give you an update on the F# tools for Visual Studio, and talk about what we're doing next. F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (requests for comments) process...

This post was written by Lena Hall, a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. F# Software Foundation has recently announced their new initiative — Applied F# Challenge! We encourage you to participate and send your submissions about F# on Azure through the participation form. Applied F# Challenge is a new initiative to encourage in-dept...