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This. As an industrial programmer: F# was awesome 10 years ago, I don't really crave for new language features. I want an industrial strength tooling and ecosys
by fsloth 8y ago
This. As an industrial programmer: F# was awesome 10 years ago, I don't really crave for new language features. I want an industrial strength tooling and ecosystem to support this awesome language, not new language features.
To be painfully blunt: The language is really nice as it is. I would prefer it would expand on the bolted-on batteries included utilities rather than new contrived ways of code golfing.
What is critical from industrial point of view that the fundamentals are now and "forever" rock solid. Not how many new language features it will gain.
See C for reference. Nobody uses C because it gets new ways to write shorter code. People choose C for stability[0], not because it's horrible language or because it's a beautiful language.
F# would be fantastical, if it would ossify like C. Then I could write it for the rest of my programming career.
[0] Yes, C moves forward, but with a geological pace