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F# isn't really aimed at data science, thats a common misconception ( I believe MS has ceased describing it that way). It's basically just a general purpose, fu
by nickpeterson 10y ago
F# isn't really aimed at data science, thats a common misconception ( I believe MS has ceased describing it that way). It's basically just a general purpose, functionally oriented language.
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- pjmlp 10y agoWhen they finally support it the same way as VB and C#, including the GUI tools, UWP, and some of the MSDN documentation about .NET, and above all when the F# community stops doing presentations about type providers as the single killer feature, then it will be a general purpose, functionally oriented language. Currently I cannot use F# on UWP until .NET Core 2.0 gets released, cannot use the same workflows with Blend and Visual Studio as I do for C#, and while type providers are cool, I have zero uses for them.
- nickpeterson 10y agoYeah, I have no arguments here. If you're goal is a friction-less integration with Microsoft tooling and projects, F# is not the way to go (definitely C#). F# practitioners would do better to position themselves as just a language in it's own right, not necessarily an 'alternative to C#'. Sort of like Elixir compared to Erlang.