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I've had nothing but great experience with F#. If it wasn't associated with Microsoft, it'd be more popular than haskell

• raincole 7mo ago
  I think if it weren't a 'first class' member of .NET ecosystem[0], no one would know F#. After all Haskell and Ocaml already exist. [0]: my very charitable take, as MS obviously cares C# much much more than F#.
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  • pjmlp 7mo ago
    Management has always behaved as if they repent having added F# to VS 2010, at least it hasn't yet suffered the same stagnation as VB, even C++/CLI was updated to C++20 (minus modules). In any case, those of us that don't have issues with .NET, or Java (also cool to hate these days), get to play with F# and Scala, and feel no need to be amazed with Rust's type system inherited from ML languages. It is yet another "Rust but with GC" that every couple of months pops up in some forums.
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  • Copyrightest 7mo ago
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• lynx97 7mo ago
  You realize that Microsoft Research employed Simon for many many years?
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• dude250711 7mo ago
  > ...it'd be more popular than haskell https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers...
  • sourcegrift 7mo ago
    > But they all just skip the press releases and go straight to the not using it part Lol
  • brabel 7mo ago
    Did they ever get the full extra person who gives a shit?