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by tome 5344 days ago
I wonder why they didn't use F#.
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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#.
Brian just didn't wanted to have another risk, because F# is less mainstream than C#.