Microsoft Power Fx

In today's world, Microsoft Power Fx has gained unprecedented relevance. Since its emergence, Microsoft Power Fx has significantly impacted various areas, such as technology, medicine, culture, and society in general. Its influence extends globally, transforming the way we interact, communicate and live our lives. In this article, we will explore the impact of Microsoft Power Fx and how it has shaped the world we live in, as well as the future implications of its presence in our everyday reality.
Not to be confused with PowerFX.
Microsoft Power Fx
ParadigmLow-code, general-purpose, imperative, strongly typed, declarative, functional
Designed byVijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger, Darryl Rubin, Greg Lindhorst, Mike Stall
DeveloperMicrosoft
First appeared2021 (2021)
Typing disciplinestrong
LicenseMIT License
Websitedocs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/overview
Influenced by
Excel functions, Excel macros, Pascal, Mathematica, Miranda

Microsoft Power Fx is a free and open source low-code, general-purpose programming language for expressing logic across the Microsoft Power Platform.

It was first announced at Ignite 2021 and the specification was released in March 2021. It is based on spreadsheet-like formulas to make it accessible to large numbers of people. It was also influenced by programming languages and tools like Pascal, Mathematica, and Miranda.

As Microsoft describes the language, it heavily borrows from the spreadsheet paradigm. In a spreadsheet, cells can contain formulas referring to the contents of other cells; if the user changes the content of a cell, the values of all its dependent cells are automatically updated. In a similar fashion, the properties of components in a Power Fx program are connected by formulas (whose syntax is very reminiscent of Excel) and their values are automatically updated if changes occur. For instance, a simple formula may connect a component's color property to the value of a slider component; if the user moves the slider, the color changes.

The initial formula language was created by a Microsoft team led by Vijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger and Darryl Rubin as part of the Tangram and Siena projects. Later, as part of Power Apps, Greg Lindhorst and Mike Stall led the effort to enhance the language to what is now become Power Fx. Power Fx is available as Open-source software. The source code was shared under MIT license by Microsoft on November 2. 2021. Only the documentation was originally open source.

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References

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