notes-computer-programming-programmingLanguageDesign-prosAndCons-fsharp

balakk 4 days ago

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It can be as terse as you want it to be. The bigger virtues are its speed, language features, and the environment.

F# interactive is what powershell/ISE wants to be, when it grows up and drinks the magic potion of awesomeness.

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"...I've tried a set of feasible Non-MS language options for my particular domain and F# in Visual Studio beats for me, my particular use case and coding style Scala, Clojure, Ruby, Python, Haskell, "browser technologies"..." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8992675

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http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/FSharp-4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467678

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