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Excellent presentation. Of the leading type safe functional languages (Haskell, F#, and OCaml) I find F# to be far and away the most accessible in terms of synt

Excellent presentation. Of the leading type safe functional languages (Haskell, F#, and OCaml) I find F# to be far and away the most accessible in terms of syntax and application. Writing Scala in my day job currently (which, for the most part, I quite enjoy) but can see jumping ship if Microsoft's move to Linux is successful. Being able to develop and deploy F# applications on Linux with full blown Type Providers and decent IDE support? Pretty compelling combo, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

jbeja 12y ago
Loving learning #F for educational purpose on my spare time and I am loving it, any idea of which is the market for this language or for what you should be use it?
- pjmlp 12y ago
  Check Skills Matter presentations. It is being adopted in European financial and insurance sectors for data modelling.
- profquail 12y ago
  Besides the industries pjmlp mentioned (finance and insurance/banking), F# is also being used for data science/analytics/machine learning, distributed applications (on Azure and AWS) and bioinformatics. I also know there are at least a few companies building mobile apps and games with F# (e.g., in combination with the Xamarin toolchain).
adwf 12y ago
Yeah, the idea of F# on Linux is very exciting. Visual studio has a lot to bring to the table, a lot of things that I've missed since I stopped working at an MS shop. I used to do a lot of work with F# and MSSQL, and have missed some of the ease of interopability since switching over. Of course, I far far far prefer Linux in general terms, but the MS tooling is quite decent. eg. I still haven't found anything that even begins to compare to the MSSQL management studio.
imanaccount247 12y ago
Do you know if it is possible to use F# on windows without having to install several GB of crap? I'd like to be able to try it out, but the same way I would try any other language, install the compiler and try it out. All I can find is huge packages including visual studio and all kinds of other junk.
- jackfoxy 12y ago
  Take a look at option 3 on this page, have not tried it myself, since I use VS daily http://fsharp.org/use/windows/ http://fsharp.org/use/windows/
- jarcane 12y ago
  There is an online editor/REPL/tutorial at http://www.tryfsharp.org/ http://www.tryfsharp.org/ You will need the Silverlight plugin.
runT1ME 12y ago
Scala's biggest advantage over other languages for me in terms of reducing bugs, complexity, and pleasantness have been higher kinded types. Given that F# is lacking in this, and they don't have plans to add it, I can't even see them as comparable.

jbeja 12y ago

Loving learning #F for educational purpose on my spare time and I am loving it, any idea of which is the market for this language or for what you should be use it?

pjmlp 12y ago
Check Skills Matter presentations. It is being adopted in European financial and insurance sectors for data modelling.
profquail 12y ago
Besides the industries pjmlp mentioned (finance and insurance/banking), F# is also being used for data science/analytics/machine learning, distributed applications (on Azure and AWS) and bioinformatics. I also know there are at least a few companies building mobile apps and games with F# (e.g., in combination with the Xamarin toolchain).

adwf 12y ago

Yeah, the idea of F# on Linux is very exciting. Visual studio has a lot to bring to the table, a lot of things that I've missed since I stopped working at an MS shop. I used to do a lot of work with F# and MSSQL, and have missed some of the ease of interopability since switching over. Of course, I far far far prefer Linux in general terms, but the MS tooling is quite decent. eg. I still haven't found anything that even begins to compare to the MSSQL management studio.

imanaccount247 12y ago

Do you know if it is possible to use F# on windows without having to install several GB of crap? I'd like to be able to try it out, but the same way I would try any other language, install the compiler and try it out. All I can find is huge packages including visual studio and all kinds of other junk.

jackfoxy 12y ago
Take a look at option 3 on this page, have not tried it myself, since I use VS daily http://fsharp.org/use/windows/ http://fsharp.org/use/windows/
jarcane 12y ago
There is an online editor/REPL/tutorial at http://www.tryfsharp.org/ http://www.tryfsharp.org/ You will need the Silverlight plugin.

runT1ME 12y ago

Scala's biggest advantage over other languages for me in terms of reducing bugs, complexity, and pleasantness have been higher kinded types. Given that F# is lacking in this, and they don't have plans to add it, I can't even see them as comparable.