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I've been on the F# website for 5 minutes now looking through damn near every page and I cannot find a single page that shows me a simple example program or the syntax at all.

Everything is hidden behind some kind of "let's get started!" wizard. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/languages/fsharp-he...

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Here's a non-wizard tutorial that I bookmarked when I started with F# (I also had a hard time finding a simple example at first):

https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/get-st...

What I like about this page is that it shows a basic project structure.

Here's a decent tour: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/fsharp/

this website is great - should truthfully be 50% of the index.html of every language project ever.

Oh yeah. A key hindrance of F# is that MS treats it like a side project even though it's probably their secret weapon, and a lot of the adopters are dotnet coders who already know the basics so the on-boarding is less than ideal.

https://fsharp.org/ is the best place to actually start, although i'm guessing you did and went to the hello world which leads back to ms's nightmares.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is the standard recommendation from there but there's finally some good youtube and other content out there.

They have a browser repl as well https://try.fsharp.org/

agreed, a "learn dotnet via f#" approach for people with experience in other ML languages would be excellent.

fsharp.org is actually the offender. lots of links to basically nothing and quite a few of them are a dead end 404.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/what-is-fsha...

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