Publications
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research Blog
Overview
Thank you to everyone who used and contributed to Try F#, an online coding website launched in 2012. The site is no longer supported and has been redirected to this research page. Additional F# resources include F#-based web experiences such as Azure Notebooks, Fable, and .NET Server-side programming; and online F# code execution is available via sites such as Fable REPL, repl.it, JDoodle, and .NET Fiddle. Additional resources are available at F# Software Foundation and Microsoft .NET for F# page. For more information on the research contributions of this site, see the publication Browser-Based Software for Technology Transfer.
Try F# Background
Try F# demonstrates the power of F# to solve real-world analytical programming and information-rich problems by providing a web experience to help you learn the F# language, create programs, and share information—quickly and easily.
A growing trend in both the theory and practice of programming is the interaction with rich information spaces. This trend derives from the ever-increasing need to integrate programming with large, heterogeneous, connected, richly structured, streaming, evolving, or probabilistic information sources—be they databases, web services, or large‐scale, cloud‐based data analyses.
However, as the complexity of programs and information structures increases, the coupling between the two is far from seamless, requiring many manual programming and modeling efforts. These manual processes often lead to brittle programs and thwart the easy application of novel compiler technologies and information mastering methods.
Providing strongly typed access to rich data sources is a key consideration for strongly-typed programming languages, to insure low impedance mismatch in information access.
F# 3.0 addresses these issues, making it ideal for analytical, data-rich, and parallel-component development, harnessing the power of functional programming while bringing the web of data to your fingertips through type providers.
And Try F# makes it even easier to program in F# 3.0 with an easy to learn, simple to use, and straightforward way of sharing, all through the browser.
Resources
Try F#
Historical snapshots of the retired TryF# site can be found on The Wayback Machine, e.g. this one from 2015.
Microsoft DevRadio: Learn, Create and Share with Try F#
F#
Get started with F#: Microsoft .NET for F# page
Learn F#: F# Software Foundation
F# web experiences: Azure Notebooks, Fable and .NET Server-side programming
F# code execution: Fable REPL, repl.it, JDoodle and .NET Fiddle.
F# communities: F# on Stack Overflow
Visual F# Resources: Visual F#
Don Syme’s WebLog on F# and Related Topics
Events
Data-Centric Programming Workshop 2014
January, 25 2014 | San Diego, California
Data Driven Functional Programming Workshop 2013
January 22, 2013 | Rome, Italy
First Workshop on Programming the Semantic Web (ISWC)
November 11, 2012 | Boston, Massachusetts