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F# was originally just kind of a passion project that MS insisted get productized to continue development. It's still very much an internal favorite within Microsoft Research and the Bing team, from my understanding.

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Nowadays most of those folks are no longer at MSR, Don Syme has moved into Github and I doubt they are into F#.

Don is still working on F#. The F# team at MS now is bigger than is was years ago. People from different companies and the community are collaborating on compiler and language features.

F# is beyond microsoft, a lot of early adopters are still there.

Stand corrected on that one.

What are the fruits of that increased team on the VS, VS4Mac and VSCode tooling, and .NET SDKs?

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