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I sometimes feel like I'm taking crazy pills happily toiling away in F#. Am I missing the boat or am I on it? Or maybe it is me lamenting the idea that language
by bmitc 4y ago
I sometimes feel like I'm taking crazy pills happily toiling away in F#. Am I missing the boat or am I on it? Or maybe it is me lamenting the idea that languages like Rust get all this mindshare to create interesting libraries. There are lots of interesting languages out there for all sorts of purposes, but as far as I can tell, F# is the sweet spot of general purpose language design. My only wish is a very similar subset of the language for embedded programming, and no, that isn't Rust.
(I love Elixir as well, but it definitely gets a lot of attention and isn't as general purpose.)
- akkad33 4y agoI didn't know this many people used F#. Already I saw it mentioned twice in front page comments here :)
- bmitc 4y agoIt's my favorite language, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. :( By the way, do you mind pointing to where else it was mentioned?
- Farmadupe 4y agoHonestly I think your observation is mostly right... if you don't have a hard performance requirement, then rust probably isn't the best language to write your code in...