F Sharp (programming language)
F# (pronounced F sharp) is a general-purpose, strongly typed, multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming methods. It is most often used as a cross-platform Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) language on .NET, but can also generate JavaScript and graphics processing unit (GPU) code.
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: functional, imperative, object-oriented, agent-oriented, metaprogramming, reflective, concurrent |
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| Family | ML |
| Designed by | Don Syme, Microsoft Research |
| Developer | Microsoft, The F# Software Foundation |
| First appeared | 2005, version 1.0 |
| Stable release | 8.0.0
/ 14 November 2023 |
| Typing discipline | Static, strong, inferred |
| OS | Cross-platform: .NET framework, Mono |
| License | MIT License |
| Filename extensions | .fs, .fsi, .fsx, .fsscript |
| Website | fsharp |
| Influenced by | |
| C#, Erlang, Haskell, ML, OCaml, Python, Scala | |
| Influenced | |
| C#, Elm, F*, LiveScript | |
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F# is developed by the F# Software Foundation, Microsoft and open contributors. An open source, cross-platform compiler for F# is available from the F# Software Foundation. F# is a fully supported language in Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider. Plug-ins supporting F# exist for many widely used editors including Visual Studio Code, Vim, and Emacs.
F# is a member of the ML language family and originated as a .NET Framework implementation of a core of the programming language OCaml. It has also been influenced by C#, Python, Haskell, Scala and Erlang.