I'm really curious to see how this shapes up against the other gorillas in the ecosystem. The Azure requirement is usually not a problem. Basically the dialogu

I'm really curious to see how this shapes up against the other gorillas in the ecosystem. The Azure requirement is usually not a problem. Basically the dialogue is something like, "F# is great and I'd use it but for the restrictive runti... wait it's open sourced? Well .NET isn't open... oh. It is? Has been for awhile now? Well what would this get me over using Spark? Also, I don't actually KNOW F# I just heard MSR people I like saying it's good so..." And that's a really good question to ask, as Spark has been making massive strides in the industry, as it matches a lot more closely to how many data scientists WANT to work.