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by ofrzeta
311 days ago
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I would be very reluctant to use it because of the fear that at some point Microsoft just kills it. You have to wonder why they are keeping it alive so long as they are probably getting not much value out of it (some people here say they are using it as a testbed for functional features in C# but I don't believe this - I guess the C# team has enough resources to do their explorations on their own). I guess if Don Syme leaves Microsoft or retires that will be the end of it. |
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F# used to be the project #1 across all the thousands of repositories of Microsoft in terms of community contributions to the ecosystem, compared to the contributions by paid employees.
Next, F# has already been a very refined language 10 years ago, so it doesn't get a lot of things added to begin with. Slow and steady evolution, with lots of care is the topic of this game.
Also: A lot of the paid work went into the tooling, which has finally reached a point, where I consider it industry ready.
By the way: Don isn't paid to work on F# anymore for quite some time.
The world still moves on.
From my personal perspective, would it change little, when Microsoft would F# let go.
And did you know, that they finance the development of Haskell since decades?
Simon worked literally on the same floor as Don for years.
They won't let it go. Paying 2, 3 devs is peanuts for them. They don't even notice it.
I am just scared, what will happen if F# truly competes with C# for market share.
The internal competition amongst projects at Microsoft can become quite nasty at times.