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i do wonder what fraction of the audience in HN also thinks of F# as a secret weapon
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
i do wonder what fraction of the audience in HN also thinks of F# as a secret weapon
- karmakaze 4y agoMuch smaller than you'd hope. HN is very much mainstream these days. I asked how one would represent a pure function in a language that didn't support pureness/immutability and got `fn f(a, b) { return a + b; }` entirely missing the point.
- fvdessen 4y agowhat was the point ?
- ggm 4y agoPerhaps the point was that representation syntactically of something which can't actually be promised by the engine underneath is a false equivalence to a language which does support it? Coding to yield() on a framework which doesn't support tail recursion might (for example) loop to infinity. Coding to immutability which cannot be guaranteed, means you may return false results.
- jjtheblunt 4y agothe downvotes for that question is itself quite funny, like a question is the ultimate non downvote purpose for HN.
- pjmlp 4y agoDepends on how much one is willing to suffer with the lesser development experience versus C# and VB, and Microsoft's expectation that it is mostly a community language that happens to ship on the dotnet sdk. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/update-to-the-dotnet-language-strategy/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/update-to-the-dotnet-l...