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It uses far less tokens than C#, so watch this space...
by nbevans 7mo ago
It uses far less tokens than C#, so watch this space...
- nodra 7mo agoCare to explain? Pattern matching, type inference, etc.?
- balakk 7mo agoIt's all about the goddamned machines.. since F# is terse, they figure agent-generated F# code is cheaper.
- KurtMueller 7mo agoI like to think of F# as concise.
- Nelkins 7mo agoVarious investigations have found it to be one of the most token efficient statically typed programming languages https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages-are-most-token-efficient/ https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages...
- delta_p_delta_x 7mo agoMl-family languages (and frankly, all natively functional languages) are just incredibly terse and information-dense second only to stuff like APL. And yet when written idiomatically and with good object and type naming they are surprisingly readable and writeable. 'Twas a bad idea to train LLMs on the corpus of leaky, verbose C and C++ first instead of on these strict, strongly-typed, highly structural languages.