Microsoft-backed F# language surges in popularity by Paul Krill.
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The Microsoft-backed F# functional programming language is gaining traction, with the platform showing a meteoric year-over-year rise on the Tiobe Programming Community Index gauging language popularity.
Ranked 69th on the index a year ago, F# has risen to the 12th spot in this month’s rankings, with a 1.216 percent rating. As the index headline notes, “F# is on its way to the Top 10.”
Microsoft Research’s F# page says the language is object-oriented and enables developers to write simple code to solve complex problems. “This simple and pragmatic language has particular strengths in data-oriented programming, parallel I/O programming, parallel CPU programming, scripting, and algorithmic development,” Microsoft said. F# originated at Microsoft Research; the F# Software Foundation has been formed to advance the language. The Microsoft Cloud Platform Tools group technically is in charge of F#.
F# Software Foundation. Did you know that F# has an open source license? Just an observation.
You can check the Tiobe Index.
Any topic map software in F#?