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by phillipcarter 1951 days ago
It's not _quite_ meant specifically as a better Python, but it can play that role and there is every intention of making that something that has "product truth" to it. You can look forward to some concrete improvements along those lines this year, specifically in the notebooks tooling space and some library support!
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In terms of my current use, the new scripting feature with "r# nuget:.." is game changing because now we can freely share .fsx files and they...just work. Compared to praying to the pip/virtualenv gods in the python space.

Really excited to see what ya'll have planned for 2021

Oh yeah, it’s a great feature. People like it a lot more than we thought they would, and we already had high hopes for it! Still more improvements to make there, though.
Just need some firm locking/pinning and I think you have nailed truly reproducible analytical workflows.
You can actually do that today by specifying a version number. The docs cover it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tools/fsharp-...