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They have a 100,000 Python, C++, and Java devs. My assumption is they don't care, i.e., inertia like you said. The big mistake was Microsoft not having .NET cr
by bmitc 3y ago
They have a 100,000 Python, C++, and Java devs. My assumption is they don't care, i.e., inertia like you said.
The big mistake was Microsoft not having .NET cross-platform from the beginning and not pitching F# as a Python alternative.
- soulbadguy 3y ago> F# as a Python alternative To play devil advocate, i think when F# was out (and still being developed), the Zeitgeist was really enamored with the idea of dynamic language, and the envisioned productivity gain from them. So F# was really too early to the dance. Since then, things have change quite a bit with most major dynamic language adding a proto-type system. Right now, i think we understand better what made language such as python and ruby so popular and are able to design better statically typed version with better tooling around them ( rust, zig, julia etc...)