Today, we are excited to announce the latest release of Try F# (opens in new tab), a set of resources that makes it easy to learn and program with F# in your browser. It’s available over a wide range of platforms and doesn’t require a download of Microsoft Visual Studio. Try F# quickly reveals the value of the versatile F# programming language.
Try F# enables users to learn F# through new tutorials that focus on solving real-world problems, including analytical programming quandaries of the sort that are encountered in finance and data science. But Try F# is much more than a set of tutorials. It lets users write code in the browser and share it with others on the web to help grow a community of F# developers.
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This latest release of Try F# is an evolution that keeps the tool in synch with the new experiences and information-rich programming features that are available in F# 3.0, the latest version of the language. The tutorials incorporate many domains, and help users understand F#’s new powerful “type providers” for data and service programming in the browser-based experience.
F# has become an invaluable tool in accessing, integrating, visualizing, and sharing data analytics. Try F# thus has the potential to become the web-based data console for bringing “big and broad data,” including the associated metadata, from thousands of sources (eventually millions) to the fingertips of developers and data scientists. Try F# helps fill the need for robust tools and applications to browse, query, and analyze open and linked data. It promotes the use of open data to stimulate innovation and enable new forms of collaboration and knowledge creation.
For example, to answer a straightforward question such as, “Is US healthcare cost-effective?” researchers now need to look at several datasets, going back and forth between an integrated development environment (IDE) and webpages to figure out if they’ve found what they need.
With Try F#, a researcher can quickly and easily access thousands of schematized and strongly-typed datasets. This presents huge opportunities in today’s data-driven world, and we strongly encourage all developers and data scientists to use Try F# to seamlessly discover, access, analyze, and visualize big and broad data.
—Evelyne Viegas (opens in new tab), Director of Semantic Computing, Microsoft Research Connections
—Kenji Takeda (opens in new tab), Solutions Architect, Microsoft Research Connections
Learn More
- Try F# (opens in new tab)
- Microsoft DevRadio: Learn, Create and Share with Try F# (opens in new tab)
- Programming Languages in the Eternal City (opens in new tab)
- Try F#—A New Wave of Education and Research (opens in new tab) (video)
- F# 3.0—Strongly-Typed Language Support for Internet-Scale Information Sources (opens in new tab)
- Try F# project page (opens in new tab)
- Visual Studio Research Tools (opens in new tab)
- Computer Science at Microsoft Research Connections (opens in new tab)