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Having spent a bit of time doing projects in F# I had to repeatedly go to C# language docs to understand what was going on when interacting with existing librar

Having spent a bit of time doing projects in F# I had to repeatedly go to C# language docs to understand what was going on when interacting with existing libraries. So in my experience I'd say it makes no sense to start with F# if you're new to the .NET ecosystem.

akdor1154 4y ago
Possible exception being if you are familiar with OCaml.
- eatonphil 4y ago
  That's the opposite of what I mean. I have programmed a bunch in Standard ML and OCaml but the biggest missing chunk trying to learn F# was how C# works. It's unavoidable.