I have noticed more and more a growing number of resources for developing applications using the F# programming language and the question came to mind of what the F# language was created to accomplish. Is it made for a specific platform, for example, Desktop, Mobile Devices, Web Applications? Also, did it include features not available in other programming languages that are currently available for developing .NET applications? Also is it still possible to create applications for the desktop, mobile, and web using F# as we can use VB or C#? Also, are there other languages similar to F# that I can use to cross-check against to get a better understanding of how functional programming works?
I have noticed more and more a growing number of resources for developing applications
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The F# research project sought to create a variant of the OCaml language running on top of the .Net platform. A related project at MSR Cambridge, SML.NET, did the same for Standard ML. (OCaml and Standard ML are both variants of the ML language.) The motivations for this might have included
This shouldn’t distract you from the fact that the F# product is a general-purpose programming language for the .Net platform. The benefits of F# extend across all domains. There may be users who are adopting F# more rapidly – scientific and financial programming are often mentioned – but the real reason for that is because those organizations are more amenable to adopting new technology (small teams, smart people, few managers).
No.
Yes. They include:
Yes but the tooling in VS2010 is incomplete. In particular, anything involving code-generation isn’t well supported e.g. WPF code-behind and the Winforms designer. This may not be a problem in practice. For instance WPF with MVVM works fairly well.
Yes. Have a look at these:
[Edit: Added comment about tooling in VS2010.]