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by PaulHoule 1458 days ago
I like OCaml and I like F#. The choice between them is really "do you like .NET?"

As a Java programmer I've been amused at how ideas have diffused slowly from ML to Java such as the hotspot compiler & generational runtime (Sun hired somebody who did an academic project for a high-performance ML-famly runtime) as well as pattern matching, sealed classes, records, etc.
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karmakaze 1458 days ago
I'll second that as "I like F# and OCaml".

Much earlier on F# was hard to get started with especially if not on Windows. C# still gets a lot more coverage than F#, but it pretty much works out of the box with free Visual Studio Community or Visual Studio for Mac (not VS Code) and some setup tutorial instructions.

And as a (former) Java programmer, I've been frustrated at how slowly ideas have come. Union types? Only in multi-catch expressions.

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