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> Microsoft lost interest in it. Do you have any sources for this?
by suprfnk 9y ago
> Microsoft lost interest in it.
Do you have any sources for this?
- bonesss 9y agoF# clearly lags behind C# in editor attention and integration into the latest and greatest GUI techs from Microsoft... For many on the MS treadmill this is seen as a negative, as you can't always get visual studio RCs and be months ahead of the competition on the next version of blend/WPF/silverlight/whatever. For others, the community driven aspect and lack of obsessions with technical fashion in the MS product line (with the track record they have...), is seen as a _major_ feature. F# has a much more active open source community and presence than C#, most of the devs are actively cross-platform in a way C# still struggles with, and it has a better .net stack than C# aimed at command line efficiency and relatively stable approaches to common problems. F# is still a first class language from MS, and would be quite OK on its own these days. Regardless, there is no chance MS will "lose interest" in F# given the impact on data science, machine learning, cloud computing, parallel computing, and stream-processing F# has. MS invested heavily in filling out their language portfolio to avoid being excluded from the big servers and big clusters. Time has shown those concerns to be growing, not shrinking :)