The Microsoft-backed F# functional programming language is gaining traction, with the platform showing a meteoric year-over-year rise on the Tiobe Programming Community Index gauging language ...

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 ...

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 ...

F# has been positioned as a language based on concepts of functional programming, in which computation is treated as the evaluation of mathematical functions.

Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost.

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.