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That's not true. There are loads of web learning resources for it.

I literally know of only a single pure F# application tutorial on the internet, Scott W.'s Calculator, and the style reads more like Java than any idiomatic FP code I've ever seen.

There's scattered bits here and there elsewhere, but none actually present a complete picture of the process. They wind up resembling, as one survey respondant suggested, feeling like the old "how to draw an owl": Step 1) draw the eyes, Step 2) Draw everything else.

From Microsoft itself

"Real World Functional Programming" - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh314518%28...

Some higher level presentations - https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/fsharp

Then there are the Erik Meijer teaching FP series, even though they are based on Haskell, given their ML common roots is also a good series to follow.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Func...

This might sound a bit stupid, but I was looking into F# a while ago (26 days ago, if the timestamps of the few files I wrote don't lie :-) ) and now I'm wondering I could have found those things (especially RWFP because I usually don't like learning from videos) if I start on fhsarp.org?

http://fsharp.org/about/learning.html does not list them, and going from http://fsharp.org/about/index.html via the "Language Reference" link to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233181.aspx doesn't list RWFP in the sidebar anymore.

I did a post last year on writing websites in F#. I personally recommend doing everything up to the API layer in F# e.g. restfully, and sticking to something like typescript on the client side. If you want a full F# end-to-end story check out something like Websharper or one of the F# <> JS cross compilers.

https://cockneycoder.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/lightweight-we...

There are 182 articles in the F# Journal.

The F# News blog has had many applications on it:

http://fsharpnews.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/most-popular-f-samp...

So has Phil Trelford's blog:

http://trelford.com/blog/

And many others.

Rather than disagreeing, it might be helpful if you suggest a few complete (but simple) application tutorials written in F#. I'd be interested in that too.

Perhaps there are now, but several years ago I felt that it was hard to come by.

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