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Agreed. I would bet on a language like Elixir or F# being simpler to learn and grow for a complex system than a class-oriented-imperative-oop (Java, Ruby, Pytho

• ddek 5y ago
  F# is such a sleeper language IMO. It's compositional tools are quite beautiful. I don't think it'll ever get wide adoption though, which is quite sad. It's just such a sensible ML language. The abstractions chosen (computational expressions, for example) were the best choice for F#, rather than copies of other FP languages. They can't implement any form of HKT because of limitations in the CLR, so they had to use alternatives. Elixir is also really great IMO. The pipeline composition is a really nice model. If adoption grows more the tooling should step up, because it's lacking a little. The language server can't do things like rename a function, there isn't a complete TreeSitter parser either. I also have this fear with actor model that I'm inadvertantly leaving some process dangle somewhere, which in my experience is not unjustified.