dbrigg · HackerTrans

Thank you and I apologize.

If that were true, why is their primary commitment to "encourage the community" and "build a forum" (my paraphrasing)? It triggers my doublespeak detector. If they were developing the language they'd have put "language development" at the top of the list.

Call me skeptical. Microsoft are no stranger to killing off their products.

dbrigg

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  > We will enable and encourage strong community participation in F# by continuing
  > to build the necessary infrastructure and tooling to complement community
  > contributions. We will make F# the best-tooled functional language on the
  > market, by improving the language and tooling experience, removing road blocks
  > for contributions, and addressing pain points to narrow the experience gap with
  > C# and VB. As new language features appear in C#, we will ensure that they also
  > interoperate well with F#. F# will continue to target platforms that are
  > important to its community.

Reading between the lines this says that further development of F# will be dropped. They're handing it over to the community for plausible deniability. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like a very sad day for functional programmers.

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