Please excuse me for bringing this up, I’m not trolling. I was very excited to find F# as the language speaks to me more than C#, but the more I read about it the larger sense I get that it has been sidelined by the programming community (not MS certainly)? I’ve been interested in Elixir, but Erla…

Perfectly valid question. Do you have some examples of where you feel that F# is sidelined by FP communities? I can think of a few reasons why some people would write it off: Lacking some of the higher-level abstractions that Haskell/Idris/Scala can express Being delivered by Microsoft, who are v…

The language being from Microsoft sure didn’t help promoting F# in my company as Microsoft technologies are generally viewed as unreliable and unscalable… That’s why I try to emphasis the role of the FSSF and the community at large in the language and the platform. I hope this will work someday! …

Let me share a different point of view. I work with F# on daily basis (yeah, lucky guy, I know :slight_smile:) and fact, that F# is connected to Microsoft actually helps. For some type of customers, mostly big corporate ones, having strong company like MS behind is must. They do not care about real …

Can we get a sense of what you’re comparing F# to? For example, could you reword your question to be, “Is there a future for F# in ___ space?” Whether that’s web, ML, IOT, etc. Because I think when discussing futures you have to understand the technologies competing in a space and compare their trad…

I’m not really in a position to be specific about the areas that F#'s vitality might be in question as I’m just learning it. I am also learning Elixir, and in comparison that community seems more vital (this is totally subjective). That being said I like the syntax of F# a little better than Elixi…

As far as I can tell, F# is being sidelined by the larger programming community to the same degree that most other functional programming languages are. It’s hard to get numbers, but for years, I’ve been keeping an eye on various information channels that claim to provide a pulse on programming lang…

This is an excellent view, and one that I mostly share. I’ll add one additional thing w.r.t Scala: size of ecosystem. Java/JVM is more widespread than .NET. The Google Trends comparison between C# and Java gives a hint as to how much larger Java and the JVM are. This should be taken as a grain of s…

Not sure if it has a future or not but it depends on how existing developers react to it. In .NET world C# developers haven’t jumped on to it and are reluctant to adopt it, I have been thinking about why it is so and I think I have an inkling that it might have something to do with them having to un…

It fails to gain traction in my mind for the same reason most functional languages are maligned, it’s “hard” and by hard I mean unfamiliar, the concepts are dead easy to learn (with a few exceptions) but functional languages often have syntax that is not C like and unfamiliar Learning a new thing f…

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I like F#, I hope I can use it in most of time in my next job in Shanghai China.

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