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Not that it would be a game changer, but F# is a pretty nice language. https://fsharp.org/use/linux/ https://fsharp.org/use/linux/

• vaylian 8y ago
  True. Caml-like languages are nice (hello Rust!). One of the benefits of the CLR is that it can support virtually any programming language that can compile to bytecode. But I do not see that being a major thing. Yes, there are various Iron$language implementations and Clojure is also available on the CLR. But from my perspective most projects are C# and then there are just very few F# projects.
  • marmaduke 8y ago
    Yep. I initially was pretty excited by F# feature list (type providers?!) but saw how small teh ecosystem was, and couldn’t really get into it.
    • WorldMaker 8y ago
      CLR interop between languages is great, so if you count all the C# world as a part of the ecosystem of F#, F# has a relatively huge ecosystem.
  • nestorD 8y ago
    F# has been open source from the start and runs on Mono but having dotnetCore on Linux gives us a faster and more reliable platform which is great. You can easily call C# code from F# so the fact that most of the .net librairies have been developed in C# has little consequences. Now we just need Microsoft to realize they have a great language and to invest properly in its marketing...
• holtalanm 8y ago
  I was going to say this. while i may not care much for C# because of its java-likeness, F# is a solid functional language that is definitely worth learning.