Back in April, Microsoft announced that they are open sourcing F# associated tools there by_enabling community contributions to the F# language, compiler, library more generally, including F# on Linux, Mac, Android,_iOS_and other platforms. Today, Microsoft enabled open source contributions to the Visual F# IDE Tools that ship as part of Visual Studio. Microsoft expects to ship these as part of the upcoming Visual Studio “14″ release._S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft said that Microsoft_will work across the F# language, core library, core tooling and Visual F# IDE tools to evolve the developer experience and provide strong integration with other tools and functionality in the .NET developer ecosystem. F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language which empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable and robust code. F# is used in a wide range of application areas and is supported by Microsoft and other industry-leading companies providing professional tools, and by an active open community. You can find out...

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