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I think this nails it. C# is a really good language. F# has some advantages, some disadvantages, but there's not much clamor for something better in the dotne

I think this nails it. C# is a really good language. F# has some advantages, some disadvantages, but there's not much clamor for something better in the dotnet world. Java and Objective-C are far behind as languages, so the motivations for Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Swift were far greater.

dragonwriter 9y ago
That's part of it, but I think the fact that "the .NET world" is largely enterprise, with is both less sensitive to language quality and more averse to change (whatever quality it brings) than much of the rest of the dev world is also a factor.
- keithnz 9y ago
  do you have an evidence for that? It seems a weird thing to say when C# is such a high quality language, and C# (and .net) keeps adapting and changing. There are some advantages with stronger functional languages. Though C# seems to be slowly but surely working out how to incorporate more functional ideas. Though never will be a "functional language" but will support a functional approach.
nickpeterson 9y ago
I've always wondered if you ported F# to the JVM if it would suddenly become much more popular.