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by pjmlp 1051 days ago
I have used Caml Light, Standard ML, Objective Caml, Haskell, and fail to see the greatness of such advancements.

C# has done great in the industry for the past 23 years without them.
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pharmakom 1051 days ago
This is a really interesting comment. Do you not miss the features and expressivity of those languages?
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pjmlp 1051 days ago
The only thing I really missed, has been adopted during the latest years, pattern matching.

Languages are not used in isolation, great IDE experience, and having mature libraries for every use I can think of, is more valuable than grammar and semantics.

Also a reason why I would rather do FP in C++23 than Haskell, even with all the warts and paper cuts it entails, ecosystem.

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pharmakom 1051 days ago
Wouldn't F# or Scala hit these ecosystem needs whilst also delivering pattern matching (done well), sum types, etc?
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pjmlp 1051 days ago
If only the tooling was at the same level as C# and Java.

Additionally, they add friction to a development stack, now everyone needs to be confortable with two language stacks, and most of the time it isn't really worth it.

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