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Xamarin is really the "killer app" for .NET at the moment. Being able to use a common codebase for Windows RT, Windows Phone, Windows, OS-X, Android, iOS is amazing. Being able to do full native work on top of that on every platform. The apps look, feel and act native cause they are using native widgets. Last I checked the F# supports was still a little crufty (over a year ago) -- but if they really get the F# suppor…
F# has gone from tiny to quite popular (#12 spot on Tiobe currently), and that shows very clearly in the quality of tools and availability of libs now. It's not the same language/community it was a year ago. By comparison, Haskell is 49 and no ML lang is in the top 50.
Wow, you were not kidding, explosive growth in the last year. Some really great stuff and tooling "just works" now.