Is F* ready for its first F* vs ‘pick your favourite language or proof assistant’ flame war? Can it take on heavyweights such as Haskell and Coq? Its list of supported features is full of imaginative PL jargon such as polymorphism, dependent types, user-defined monadic effects, refinement types, weakest precondition calculus, predicative hierarchy of universes with universe polymorphism, rich type