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by taudelta 5341 days ago
He mentions that later on during the Q&A session
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tome 5341 days ago
Could you please repeat it here so we don't have to search? Thanks.
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dan00 5341 days ago
Their application is an extension of Outlook, which only has a dot.net API.
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tome 5341 days ago
I wonder why they didn't use F#.
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jamwt 5341 days ago
He answered that too: language maturity. He was unfamiliar with the .NET ecosystem in general, and the availability of help/expertise/examples etc was much greater for C# than F#.
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dan00 5341 days ago
Brian just didn't wanted to have another risk, because F# is less mainstream than C#.
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looser 5341 days ago
Ok, thanks.
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