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Whhy is the salary for F# developers high?

garganzol 9y ago
I assume that F# developers bring better business outcomes. I am both a C# and F# developer, and in my experience functional code (F#, OCaml etc) tends to be 5 times less buggy than an imperative equivalent. F# compiler does an impressive job of catching errors at compile time: this is the primary reason for better outcomes. The second significant contributing factor: functional code tends to have less side effects, and thus developers can reason about such code more realistically. A third contributing factor is lazy computations. Which leads to (surprise, surprise) better overall performance at runtime. Less bugs + Better performance = Higher salary Though I don't say F# is perfect. It has its quirks and there is a lot of room for future improvements.
- ageofwant 9y ago
  I'm led to believe F# is popular amongst the quants, quants work for the monied.
  - ozim 9y ago
    Agree so before jumping into learning F# keep in mind it does not go that way "Know F#" -> "high paid job". It is more probable that those guys were already in place where F# was useful so they started using it as best tool for the job. So they were already highly paid.
pryelluw 9y ago
There aren't that many of them. Companies using F# pay a premium.
shaki-dora 9y ago
I believe it has seen some significant adoption in finance.
suprfnk 9y ago
On that note: Anyone know of any good F# learning resources (preferably books/text) for an experienced C# developer who has only done a little bit of functional programming (Haskell, Clojure) here and there?
- elcapitan 9y ago
  "F# Deep Dives" is very practical and should work for beginners: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617291323 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617291323
- megaman22 9y ago
  Get Programming with F# is finally done, and looks pretty good https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-f-sharp https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-f-sharp Real-World Functional Programming With examples in F# and C# is another good one https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-functional-programming https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-functional-programm... The NoStarch Book of F# is a pretty decent beginner's book https://nostarch.com/fsharp https://nostarch.com/fsharp Would second the vote for F# Deep Dives as well.
- pryelluw 9y ago
  https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is a great resource.

I assume that F# developers bring better business outcomes. I am both a C# and F# developer, and in my experience functional code (F#, OCaml etc) tends to be 5 times less buggy than an imperative equivalent. F# compiler does an impressive job of catching errors at compile time: this is the primary reason for better outcomes. The second significant contributing factor: functional code tends to have less side effects, and thus developers can reason about such code more realistically. A third contributing factor is lazy computations. Which leads to (surprise, surprise) better overall performance at runtime. Less bugs + Better performance = Higher salary Though I don't say F# is perfect. It has its quirks and there is a lot of room for future improvements.

ageofwant 9y ago
I'm led to believe F# is popular amongst the quants, quants work for the monied.
- ozim 9y ago
  Agree so before jumping into learning F# keep in mind it does not go that way "Know F#" -> "high paid job". It is more probable that those guys were already in place where F# was useful so they started using it as best tool for the job. So they were already highly paid.

pryelluw 9y ago

There aren't that many of them. Companies using F# pay a premium.

shaki-dora 9y ago

I believe it has seen some significant adoption in finance.

suprfnk 9y ago

On that note: Anyone know of any good F# learning resources (preferably books/text) for an experienced C# developer who has only done a little bit of functional programming (Haskell, Clojure) here and there?

elcapitan 9y ago
"F# Deep Dives" is very practical and should work for beginners: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617291323 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617291323
megaman22 9y ago
Get Programming with F# is finally done, and looks pretty good https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-f-sharp https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-f-sharp Real-World Functional Programming With examples in F# and C# is another good one https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-functional-programming https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-functional-programm... The NoStarch Book of F# is a pretty decent beginner's book https://nostarch.com/fsharp https://nostarch.com/fsharp Would second the vote for F# Deep Dives as well.
pryelluw 9y ago
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is a great resource.