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In recent years, functional programming has gained a reputation as a particularly rigorous and productive paradigm. Not only are functional programming languages gaining attention within programmer communities, but many large companies are also starting to use functional programming languages to solve commercial problems.

For example, Walmart’s have begun using Clojure, a JVM-based functional Lisp dialect, for its checkout infrastructure; Jet.com, a large ecommerce platform (now owned by Walmart), uses F# to build most of its microservices; and Jane Street, a proprietary trading firm, primarily use OCaml to build their algorithms.

Today, we will explore F# programming. F# is one of the functional programming languages that is seeing increasing adoption due to its flexibility, strong .NET integration, and high quality of available tools. Specifically, we will build a simple web server and a related mobile app using only F# for both the front end and the back end.

Why Choose F#

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