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Daniel Schobel
Daniel Schobel

Reputation: 506

Is F# ready for production environment?

I believe a functional language would be helpful for the domain my company works in (financial) where we read in a ton of data, do some mathematical processing on it, and then store it again. Something which is fundamentally very parallelizable and not well-suited to extensive object-graphs with state (in my estimation).

As a .NET shop, I immediately thought of F# but I'm wary of the fact that the words "research" are prominently interspersed throughout almost all of the MS materials on it.

Does anyone know if F# is going to be something which MS is going to support going forward or would I be better of trying to convince the powers that be to go with Scheme/Haskell/et al?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 665

Answers (3)

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 118865

See also e.g.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/966039/which-companies-are-using-f-internally-and-what-are-they-using-it-for

which is suggestive of a few big companies that are already using F#.

Upvotes: 3

kemiller2002
kemiller2002

Reputation: 115488

It is going to be in visual studio 2k10 as a formal language.

(See e.g.

http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/12/10/fsharp-to-ship-as-part-of-visual-studio-2010.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2009/05/20/visual-studio-2010-beta1-with-f-is-now-available-plus-matching-f-ctp-update-for-vs2008.aspx )

Upvotes: 8

mqp
mqp

Reputation: 71935

Microsoft seems to be really gung-ho about promoting F# as a first-class language in the new Visual Studio, so I expect that they will continue supporting it with tools and documentation for quite a while.

Upvotes: 3

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