An open letter about the terms “F#” and “Visual F#”

Perfectly reasonable--the same thing RS would do (see: "Gnu/Linux"). Trademarks do not protect themselves. It takes a concerted effort by the trademark holder.

Good luck with that. If you look on a site like Stack Overflow at questions about even languages like C and C++, you'll see developers confusing Xcode with their language. With a name like "Visual F#" it must be 100 times worse since it includes the name of the language in the product name.

I get and appreciate the distinction, but I wish Microsoft would replace "Visual" as the brand keyword with something that doesn't evoke associations with Visual C++ for Win32 desktop applications or Visual Basic for Applications macro memories

<i>sigh</i> Microsoft keep doing this &quot;please don&#x27;t use our trademarks&quot; spiel. It got old at least 20 years ago.