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by hurril 6y ago
I've been writing F# professionally for 1.5 years now and let me tell you: it is a BLISS! Came from Scala so no .NET experience at all before.
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by hurril 6y ago
Are they supported, though? That was the question. Downvote me all you want, put words in my mouth if that is what you need to do, etc. A. But are they supported and is that a meaningful question? B. I am not bashing anything Linux because
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by hurril 6y ago
No it is absolutely not. That googling will find a list of hardware supported by Hackintosh and it will find Apple. Two very good responses. Laptops supported by Linux provides neither.
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by hurril 6y ago
No they should absolutely not and the reason has nothing to do with the languages as such (which would be fine choices!) and all to do with people. A senior programmer that writes Java or C# in 2021 is not going to jump ship from his comfy
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by hurril 6y ago
I did Scala for ten years and've been at it with F# for a year and a half now. I do miss some very powerful features of Scala such as HKT and "typeclasses" occasionally but overall it works very well. Sure, Scala is complex b
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by hurril 6y ago
As so often is the case, people are conflating mentions of the crimes with the crimes themselves. Bickering about terminology takes away from getting at the actual offences.
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by hurril 6y ago
That is a misunderstanding of the term intrinsic on your part.
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by hurril 6y ago
What do you mean by "without losing the profits"? A tax-funded electric firm would surely not share its profits with anyone, and even if it did it would still be at a net loss to the tax payers. (Since _all_ the funding would come
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by hurril 6y ago
Who foots the bill with non-private companies? If anything, _that_ is what's ignored.
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by hurril 6y ago
Work at a large:ish private bank i Sweden basically doing "digitization" of all customer processes.
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by hurril 6y ago
An excellent book and one that I used together with Stylish F# and F# Deep Dives to get my current job. Been writing F# full time now for over a year and I must say that it's nothing short of a brilliant language. Came here from 10 yea
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by hurril 6y ago
Would you consider Scala? It wasn't wildly popular before 2.8 (which is when HKTs were added) but not unpopular either.