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The "industry" took OCaml and built F# to make it possible to leverage more of existing libraries and frameworks and make it more approachable - the thing still
by CmonDev 12y ago
The "industry" took OCaml and built F# to make it possible to leverage more of existing libraries and frameworks and make it more approachable - the thing still did not take off. Unfortunately the tools are still missing (e.g. automated refactoring). The academics who are fond of functional languages unfortunately don't like real-world messy things, such as proper IDE support. I personally would have chosen F# over C# had ReSharper for it been available. But not even Roslyn is...
- pjmlp 12y ago> the thing still did not take off. Just look around in the finance and insurance sector for data modeling. Although developers aren't writing full stack applications in OCaml and F#, they surely are writing kernel modules of the applications.
- CmonDev 12y ago"Just look around in the finance and insurance sector for data modeling." That is a very narrow niche.
- pjmlp 12y agoSo what?! It is a very profitable one where the languages are currently being used in the industry. I bet they get more used and generate more revenue, than typical Go startup projects that get upvoted here all the time.