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What is the strongest option for functional programming then? I love Clojure as a language but it's almost impossible to find decent jobs with it in my area.

ForHackernews 7y ago
Scala is probably the most pragmatic functional programming language to get a job in. It's on the JVM and you can use all the Java libraries, and it also lets you fall back to an imperative style if you need to.
- Dayshine 7y ago
  That sounds exactly the same as F# (except there might be more jobs in scala). F# is on .NET CLR and you can use all the .NET libraries, and it lets you fall back to an imperative style if you need to!
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Try to use EF, WCF, UWP, WPF from F#.
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    - McWobbleston 7y ago
      EF isn't really needed with Dapper and the available SQL type providers. Even still it's totally naturally to have a C# project holding the base EF stuff which you reference from your F# projects
      - pjmlp 7y ago
        Try to use that argument to sell F# to the large majority of .NET shops.
        thrower123 7y ago
        The vast majority of .Net shops would run shrieking when faced with F# code. I still run into people regularly that shun the var keyword for type inference in C# because they think it is actually the evil old VB6 Variant type.
        pjmlp 7y ago
        Yep that was kind of my point.
  - Iwan-Zotow 7y ago
    > you can use all the .NET libraries did you try it? Hint: there is a lot of things required before F# could use latest WinUI or WPF
    - svick 7y ago
      I wouldn't call those libraries. If you have something that's actually just a library, using it from F# should not be a problem.
- exyi 7y ago
  Well, in these cases it's very similar to F#, except it's based on .NET and has different syntax. I guess the main point of the comment above is lacking IDE support - refactoring tools don't exist and autocompletion is also not excelent. Do you know some decent tools for Scala? I don't know much about it, but it could be a very good language if IntelliJ had full support for that.
  - ForHackernews 7y ago
    IntelliJ does have have full support for Scala (through an official plugin): https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/discover-intellij-idea-for-scala.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/discover-intellij-idea-f...
GiorgioG 7y ago
What about remote work?

ForHackernews 7y ago

Scala is probably the most pragmatic functional programming language to get a job in. It's on the JVM and you can use all the Java libraries, and it also lets you fall back to an imperative style if you need to.

Dayshine 7y ago
That sounds exactly the same as F# (except there might be more jobs in scala). F# is on .NET CLR and you can use all the .NET libraries, and it lets you fall back to an imperative style if you need to!
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Try to use EF, WCF, UWP, WPF from F#.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
  - McWobbleston 7y ago
    EF isn't really needed with Dapper and the available SQL type providers. Even still it's totally naturally to have a C# project holding the base EF stuff which you reference from your F# projects
    - pjmlp 7y ago
      Try to use that argument to sell F# to the large majority of .NET shops.
      - thrower123 7y ago
        The vast majority of .Net shops would run shrieking when faced with F# code. I still run into people regularly that shun the var keyword for type inference in C# because they think it is actually the evil old VB6 Variant type.
        pjmlp 7y ago
        Yep that was kind of my point.
- Iwan-Zotow 7y ago
  > you can use all the .NET libraries did you try it? Hint: there is a lot of things required before F# could use latest WinUI or WPF
  - svick 7y ago
    I wouldn't call those libraries. If you have something that's actually just a library, using it from F# should not be a problem.
exyi 7y ago
Well, in these cases it's very similar to F#, except it's based on .NET and has different syntax. I guess the main point of the comment above is lacking IDE support - refactoring tools don't exist and autocompletion is also not excelent. Do you know some decent tools for Scala? I don't know much about it, but it could be a very good language if IntelliJ had full support for that.
- ForHackernews 7y ago
  IntelliJ does have have full support for Scala (through an official plugin): https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/discover-intellij-idea-for-scala.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/discover-intellij-idea-f...

GiorgioG 7y ago

What about remote work?