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Since you're "coming from the Python world" you have a good case-study in how a bunch of things outside of language design are crucial. Python has essentially won the race to be th…

Yes, functional composition in part. And while pretty-much-everyone has first-class functions now, they're usually not _quite_ as easy to declare and use as they are in F# (e.g., i…

I'm no believer in silver bullets, but I wonder about "the productivity difference is only marginal." For one thing, I think being an F# dev is likely to improve one's OOP code (im…

I prefer F# as my day-to-day, but I can understand why, for day-to-day challenges, a lot of devs might look at some language features and say "C# has something that's pretty simila…

It's perfect as a scripting language on the Mac. That's how I do 90% of my scripting work.

Actually it wasn't as revelatory as you might think. Windows programming was irrelevant in the 80s -- it wasn't until Windows 3 and 3.1 that it really caught on. In the DOS world t…

Go is supposed to be a better C. Scala is supposed to be a better Java. JS is supposed to be popular. EDIT: Go is intended to be a systems-programming language with an emphasis not…