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by smoothdeveloper 3721 days ago
It is still a long way before:

* pattern matching / active patterns

* Discriminated Unions and many other crucial type system enhancements over POCO in C#

* real functional orientation (function composition, immutability by default, partial application)

* type providers (it is not necessarily about data provider)

* more compile time safety harness

* plenty of other things that become apparent when you get comfortable with the language

C# 7 is still doing catch-up with F# 1.

My hypothesis is that it is easier for many people to not try too hard to grasp at functional programming or just learn a new language.

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The truth is that F#'s features are not that compelling to justify the move, ML syntax is too different and R# tooling is not there and never going to be.
You might be right about a small subset of people, but most developers using languages like ruby, python, basic, pascal, etc. would prove this wrong.

Also most of F# are fairly well experienced C# programmer, and I think they do find the language compelling.