F# is Microsoft's rendition of OCaml. It's super nice if you're trapped in the .Net world, where the alternatives are C# and Visual Basic. Otherwise it suffers

F# is Microsoft's rendition of OCaml. It's super nice if you're trapped in the .Net world, where the alternatives are C# and Visual Basic. Otherwise it suffers from the same lack of open source infrastructure and good non-Windows support as the rest of the .Net languages. The user base may not be growing quickly, if at all. But it was probably worth the investment for Microsoft, just to have a better language for their employees to use.