Should I invest time learning Microsoft’s new F# language? I am mainly a C# .NET developer and I wonder if learning F# will be of any help in developing today’s typical applications.
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Should I invest time learning Microsoft’s new F# language? I am mainly a C# .NET developer and I wonder if learning F# will be of any help in developing today’s typical applications.
F# is a perfectly good place to start learning functional languages. If you’re worried that F# knowledge won’t apply to other functional languages, you shouldn’t. F# is a member of the ML family of languages. Microsoft just tweaked it a bit so that it plays well with .NET.
Luca Bolognese gave an amazing presentation on F# at PDC 2008. I would strongly recommend you watch it and decide for yourself whether F# is worth learning.