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by eckza 1235 days ago
I think that the problem is that:

- fsharp's big selling point is that it runs on dotnet - most FP ideologues run screaming from M$, and there are other, better (subjectively), more-active FP langs that do many of the same things, such as OCaml and Haskell - most dotnet shops are "csharp or die" and getting fsharp adoption is more or less an impossible task for cultural reasons

I support fsharp and generally like it, but I'm not reaching for it for net-new stuff that doesn't already have a dependency on dotnet. $0.02.

2 comments

"most FP ideologues run screaming from M$"

This can be also a blessing that makes the F# community quite pragmatic rather than dogmatic :)

FP makes pragmatic sense, it's not an ideological concept.

F# is a better OCaml. Haskell is too different to compare.