Celebrating the F# 9 Release: A Tribute to Our Contributors

We would like to take a moment and thank all of our contributors and congratulate them with successful [release of F# 9](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fsharp-9).

> F# is historically developed as a collaboration between the .NET Foundation, the F# Software Foundation, their members, and other contributors, including [Amplifying F#](https://amplifyingfsharp.io/) and Microsoft. The F# community is involved at all stages of innovation, design, implementation, and delivery, and we’re proud to be a contributing part of this community.

Between October 2023 and October 2024, the [dotnet/fsharp](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/graphs/contributors?from=2023-10-01&to=2024-10-01&type=c) repository tracks 28 contributors with commits in that period. On top of that, there are numerous contributors filing [issues](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp), [raising and voting on suggestions](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions), and contributing to [feature design](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design).

We would like to highlight our top OSS contributors including, but not limited to [Brian Rourke Boll](https://github.com/brianrourkeboll), [Edgar Gonzalez](https://github.com/edgarfgp), [Eugene Auduchinok](https://github.com/auduchinok), [Florian Verdonck](https://github.com/nojaf), [dawe](https://github.com/dawedawe), [Jakub Majocha](https://github.com/majocha), [Martin](https://github.com/Martin521), [Alex Berezhnykh](https://github.com/DedSec256) and more, please see full list at the end of the post.

**Again, a huge thank you all - this release wouldn't have been possible without you!**

## Contributor showcase

We would also like to, as we did in our last release, highlight individuals who contribute to F#, and publish a short text about them using their own words.

### Brian Rourke Boll


> I’m [Brian](https://github.com/brianrourkeboll), a wannabe linguist turned software engineer living in Michigan, USA. I’m a fan of F#, functional programming, and thinking of ways to write slightly-less-bad code.
Professionally, I’ve gone from studying and teaching the [Irish language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language), to building distributed financial systems in F# at Rocket Mortgage, to wrangling ordering scale and performance at Olo.
I’ve really enjoyed actively contributing to the F# open-source ecosystem in the past year. I’ve found that, with an itch to make things better, a good dose of persistence, some encouragement from people like the Amplifying F# crew and the F# team, and a bit of hubris, it’s possible to make real improvements to the language and tooling.

### Alex Berezhnykh (DedSec256)


> Hello! My name is Alexey Berezhnykh, and I work on F# support in JetBrains Rider. I have first met with F# during one of the courses at university, and it was love at first sight! That's why I decided to focus my undergraduate thesis on F#. This led me to JetBrains under the supervision of Eugene Auduchinok, and the topic of my work was «Hosting type providers out-of-process» in Rider, where I made my first contributions to dothet/fsharp. Later, this topic continued in my master's degree thesis, which was focused on cross-project analysis for generative type providers in C#. Since then, together with many people from around the world, we've made numerous interesting improvements and features for the language and tooling, and I believe there's much more to come!

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Below is the whole list of contributors of the [dotnet/fsharp](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp) repository over the F# 9 development period, listed in alphabetical order.

[](https://github.com/0101)[](https://github.com/abelbraaksma)[](https://github.com/abonie)[](https://github.com/akoeplinger)[](https://github.com/auduchinok)[](https://github.com/baronfel)[](https://github.com/brianrourkeboll)[](https://github.com/dawedawe)[](https://github.com/DedSec256)[](https://github.com/dsyme)[](https://github.com/edgarfgp)[](https://github.com/gusty)[](https://github.com/Happypig375)[](https://github.com/kerams)[](https://github.com/KevinRansom)[](https://github.com/Lanayx)[](https://github.com/majocha)[](https://github.com/Martin521)[](https://github.com/mmitche)[](https://github.com/NikolaMilosavljevic)[](https://github.com/nojaf)[](https://github.com/psfinaki)[](https://github.com/rstm-sf)[](https://github.com/smoothdeveloper)[](https://github.com/T-Gro)[](https://github.com/ijklam)[](https://github.com/Thorium)[](https://github.com/ViktorHofer)[](https://github.com/vzarytovskii)