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They link to "Announcing C# 12", but not a single mention of F# and "Announcing F# 8"[1], huh? (Edit: At least there's a link now.) It actually addresses sever
by debugnik 3y ago
They link to "Announcing C# 12", but not a single mention of F# and "Announcing F# 8"[1], huh? (Edit: At least there's a link now.)
It actually addresses several warts (finally span pinning!), brings some new shortands, makes the syntax more uniform and comes with some performance improvements as well.
[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-fsharp-8/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-fsharp-8/
- neonsunset 3y agoThere is a separate post on HN :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38265390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38265390
- debugnik 3y agoNice, although I'm mostly concerned about the fact that they didn't bother to mention it. I know it isn't too popular, but it's still a part of the toolchain and not in maintenance mode like VB.NET is.
- jackfoxy 3y agoOne of the first comments on the site points out this lacuna. Leave it to the F# community to be vocal about this.
- KurtMueller 3y agoWe gotta be. We know Microsoft isn't gonna be :D.
- jackfoxy 3y agoI'm with ya. I still use F# for scripting in Linux. I've been out of enterprise computing for over 2 years.