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Interesting, thank you! From just preliminary research, F# seems both loved by its devs, but also found to be a bit of an unloved child on a sidetrack - that w
by rich_sasha 6y ago
Interesting, thank you!
From just preliminary research, F# seems both loved by its devs, but also found to be a bit of an unloved child on a sidetrack - that was probably another reason I hesitated in getting started. Do you think that is justified?
- devmunchies 6y agoI wouldn't say its unloved or on a side track, it's baked into .net as a first class citizen and has dedicated engineers at Microsoft working on it. When I started I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to download .net core on a mac and not do anything else to use F#. Its less popular than C# so its there's not as much documentation from 3rd party sources, youtube videos, etc, but you can use any C# modules in F# so you'll get used to reading C# docs. I would highly recommend this overview of the .Net ecosystem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfBfBQq7EE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfBfBQq7EE I really like how it showed a preview of "modern C#" at 12:20 which is being influenced by F#. After that, this talk opened my eyes to the power of f# philosophy and type system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB1_e5wZmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB1_e5wZmU