Microsoft shipped an update to its functional programming language, incorporating Span support in the new F# 4.5. Described as "the largest piece of F# 4.5," Span support aligns the open source ...

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F# makes it easy to write concise code to solve complex problems on all the major desktop and mobile platforms, primarily using functional programming F# is a strongly typed, functional-first ...

The sands of the IT world are shifting, as the cloud and mobile move from being secondary to the old n-tier+web model that's dominated for much of the last decade. That sea change is shifting the ...

OpenSilver, an open source alternative to the long-gone Microsoft Silverlight, continues to add new language support to its XAML-based web application framework. After adding support for VB.NET (in ...

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike We all learned about ...