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F# was based on OCaml. OCaml was attempted to be promoted several years ago and failed miserably. Yes, there are people interested in it, but not in a really serious way and only in small numbers.

I just searched through every article I could find and see that through sites and you would not believe the amount of "how can we evangelize it" sort of things I found- a site dedicated to evangelization, two GitHub PRs for part 1 and part 2 of evangelization. A post about why evangelization isn't working and how to fix that. An article in Code magazine which is controlled by MS.

From what I can see in HN comments, there is a minority of people that want to try it but don't use it. Quora has a recent answer about those using F# and mostly it's a short list of companies almost no one's heard of.

After all of that, a recent post on HN about F# got ~170 points for front page.

It might be a fine language for some, but it's not in the top three. If you don't believe me, just spend some time researching the amount of desperation in the evangelization.

I'm not sure how it got all of those points, but it seems like it wasn't purely on merit.