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For a little while I was very interested in F#. It's not popular by any means but when I saw it I was really impressed. It's the functional language to C#. I e

For a little while I was very interested in F#. It's not popular by any means but when I saw it I was really impressed. It's the functional language to C#. I even found at one point an F# to JS compiler/transpiler and was able to set up a webpack config that let me write F# in a JS project. I'd love to be able to use this at work - unfortunately my coworkers were less excited about pursuing this.

kmc059000 4y ago
This was my experience as well. I became very interested in F# and Clojure about 6-8 years ago because they were seemingly better languages that attracted better users. I was wanting to work with people who cared more about the work they were doing than those I had been working with. I thought functional programming was a way to so this. I thought that by learning these languages that I would find the programming promised land of good tools and good users. I never found anything like that though. I couldn't find many jobs using these languages and the few I did seemingly were too difficult to be hired in. And I was never successful in evangelizing them in the roles I was already in. The F# landscape seems to be worse than it was a few years ago. And I am fairly certain it will never change for the better. I think being .net hinders it in a way that the JVM doesn't hinder clojure. C# is a pretty good language and platform and the community is fairly aligned with the Microsoft's direction and influence on the ecosystem.
- askonomm 4y ago
  If you're interested in getting a Clojure job, join the Clojurians Slack (an extremely friendly and welcoming community of some 20 thousand people) and check out Brave Clojure Jobs (https://jobs.braveclojure.com/ https://jobs.braveclojure.com/) Also check this page for a list of companies that hire without a prior Clojure experience required: https://jobs-blog.braveclojure.com/2022/03/24/long-term-clojure-benefits.html https://jobs-blog.braveclojure.com/2022/03/24/long-term-cloj... Almost every day a new job appears, so there are definitely options, and feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions at all (e-mail in my profile).

kmc059000 4y ago

This was my experience as well. I became very interested in F# and Clojure about 6-8 years ago because they were seemingly better languages that attracted better users. I was wanting to work with people who cared more about the work they were doing than those I had been working with. I thought functional programming was a way to so this. I thought that by learning these languages that I would find the programming promised land of good tools and good users. I never found anything like that though. I couldn't find many jobs using these languages and the few I did seemingly were too difficult to be hired in. And I was never successful in evangelizing them in the roles I was already in. The F# landscape seems to be worse than it was a few years ago. And I am fairly certain it will never change for the better. I think being .net hinders it in a way that the JVM doesn't hinder clojure. C# is a pretty good language and platform and the community is fairly aligned with the Microsoft's direction and influence on the ecosystem.

askonomm 4y ago
If you're interested in getting a Clojure job, join the Clojurians Slack (an extremely friendly and welcoming community of some 20 thousand people) and check out Brave Clojure Jobs (https://jobs.braveclojure.com/ https://jobs.braveclojure.com/) Also check this page for a list of companies that hire without a prior Clojure experience required: https://jobs-blog.braveclojure.com/2022/03/24/long-term-clojure-benefits.html https://jobs-blog.braveclojure.com/2022/03/24/long-term-cloj... Almost every day a new job appears, so there are definitely options, and feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions at all (e-mail in my profile).