Is F# a usable language for .net windows development

Question

I have been hearing about F# and Microsoft now have a guy who is blogging and coding away in redmond somewhere about it. Can you really write GUI code from F# (I\'d love to see

Answer 1

But as Jon Skeet says, Tomas has some interesting examples (especially filtering/piping events), which show what I suspect may be a good cross-over point, i.e., design your C# GUI with designer, and then write the brains in F#, hooking one to the other with events.

That's I think a very good approach. Designing complex GUIs without WinForms designer is a bit annoying (though, the difference isn't that big in WPF - F# doesn't support WPF designer, but you don't loose that many things there).

Anyway, stay tuned for more examples :-). Using declarative event handling (Event.filter, Event.map & friends) is quite nice, but in some cases it isn't quite what you want to. I'm just writing a chapter about that and I think F# gives you some really awesome ways to deal with GUIs - the source code will be freely available on the book web site and I'll hopefuly write some short intro for my blog as well once the book will be done.