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This is sad for me because Jet used F# extensively - one of the few non-finance companies to do so.

• partisan 6y ago
  Agreed. They were active in the F# community in NYC until the purchase.
• thrwaray1212 6y ago
  My team still uses F# and a few others do as well
  • GiorgioG 6y ago
    The problem for me (as a C# developer for a very long time) is that it has zero traction. If I want use a more functional programming language I'm better off learning Elixir, Clojure, Reason, Scala etc. If I'm going to invest in spending the time to really learn a programming language I want to know that there's a community that's doing reasonably well to promote it. Microsoft has done a terrible job - treating F# as a 2nd class citizen for a very long time. Microsoft has all its eggs in the C# basket with respect to .NET. Without Microsoft support F# will continue to be a tiny niche - sadly.
    • GiorgioG 6y ago
      For the folks downvoting, it's not that I don't want to use F#, but at most corps you're not going to have an easy time getting approval to use F#. Just because I want to use F#, doesn't mean the rest of the team wants to maintain it when I'm gone/unavailable/etc. It's a terrific product with little corporate backing. C# gets more F# like everyday. I have limited time to invest in learning technology (especially the way front-end tech changes so quickly) that it's hard to justify committing to becoming proficient in F#.