Born in a research lab, raised in the enterprise and now a fully open source, cross-platform language for the Cloud and Web, F# has been a key part of the transformation of programming since the early 2000s. Programming now regularly incorporates both functional and object programming techniques, with compositionality, succinctness, methodology and delivery to match.

I’ll share the story of this journey, and why F# continues to challenge the status quo with the simplicity and combining power of its design elements.