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Programs written in F* can be translated to [[OCaml]], [[F Sharp (programming language)|F#]], and [[C (programming language)|C]] for execution. Previous versions of F* could also be translated to [[JavaScript]].
 
It was introduced in 2011<ref name="origin-paper">
It was introduced in 2013<ref name="origin-paper">{{cite journal |last1=Swamy |first1=Nikhil |last2=Chen |first2=Juan |last3=Fournet |first3=Cédric |last4=Strub |first4=Pierre-Yves |last5=Bhargavan |first5=Karthikeyan |last6=Yang |first6=Jean |title=Secure distributed programming with value-dependent types |journal=Journal of Functional Programming |date=July 2013 |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=402-451 |doi=10.1017/S0956796813000142 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/article/secure-distributed-programming-with-valuedependent-types/14288BBFE9B373738DC8F60C3E89E3E3 |access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref> and is under active development on [[GitHub]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/FStarLang/FStar|title=FStarLang/FStar|website=GitHub|date=17 April 2023 }}</ref>
{{cite conference
|last1=Swamy
|first1=Nikhil
|last2=Chen
|first2=Juan
|last3=Fournet
|first3=Cédric
|last4=Strub
|first4=Pierre-Yves
|last5=Bhargavan
|first5=Karthikeyan
|last6=Yang
|first6=Jean
|title=Secure distributed programming with value-dependent types
|conference=ICFP '11: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
|date=September 2011
|volume=46
|issue=9
|pages=266–278
|___location = Tokyo, Japan
|doi=10.1145/2034574.2034811
|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery
|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2034773.2034811
|access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref> and is under active development on [[GitHub]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/FStarLang/FStar|title=FStarLang/FStar|website=GitHub|date=17 April 2023 }}</ref>
 
==History==