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tejasv

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    Comment #25988947

    We do. Chaldal (YC S15), see https://chaldal.tech/

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    Comment #25315177

    Not yet, it has been on my list for a long time. Meanwhile I recommend this blog that collates all good F# content from around the web weekly: https://sergeytihon.com/category/f-we…

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    Comment #25312644

    Interop is janky. It works, but there are some gotchas that need to be worked around. It works in 95% of the cases without much mucking around, but it's not pretty, so you're bette…

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    Comment #25312536

    Here's is a simplistic example of a state machine: let transition (state: State) (action: Action) : State option = match (state, action) with | (StateA, ActionA) -> Some StateB | (…

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    Comment #25312483

    Yes :) That moment when it simply clicks, it's not something that goes away. It has certainly made my day-to-day programming work a lot sweeter, hence I can't shut up talking about…

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    Comment #25312468

    If you're on a .NET stack, F# is a secret sauce; its just not many have bothered to look :) Maybe discuss with your CTO and make a collective decision to invest in it by understand…

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    Comment #25308976

    We're an F#-first company and I'd like to share our experience here. All our new code is in F#, we started off from a C# codebase, so that made the transition somewhat manageable, …

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    Comment #23515205

    Agreed. You can't completely avoid it as we're running on a framework (and libraries) that's based on C#, but we architect our code such that these messy edges that interface with …

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    Comment #23515160

    As other replies to this comment describe, we make heavy use of opaque types where runtime enforcement of safety is need. Some examples: PositiveFloat, PositiveDecimal, NonEmptyMap…

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    Comment #23507506

    We, at Chaldal (YC S15, chaldal.tech), use F# in production. Most of our backend projects are in F#, the last one is being migrated over slowly from C#. Our new frontend projects a…

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    Comment #23381050

    Chaldal ( https://chaldal.tech ) YC S15 | Remote | Full-time We build systems and infrastructure in the developing world. Our primary offering is a vertically-integrated 15-minute …

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    Ask HN: What is the performance and APK size overhead of React Native on Android?

    Can React Native experts share their experience on Android: 1. What is the increase in APK size? 2. What is the impact on app start-up time, compared to Native? 3. What is the impa…

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    Comment #14733443

    lock them up and dont give them any food

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    Comment #13569916

    I've taken the approach of converting my models to XML, mostly because they map 1:1 from F#-land to XML-land, and I can use SQL Server's XML Indices, but most importantly, I can us…

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    Comment #13544411

    Chaldal (YC-S15) | Senior Engineers / Architects | SF, Singapore | Fulltime, Onsite preferred / Remote considered Build out entire tech ecosystems in developing countries. We're a …

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    Comment #12949564

    We use Xamarin Forms a LOT for our internal and public facing apps. I started exploring it almost 2 years back, because native Android development just sucked, and C# has the async…

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    Comment #12578269

    If these alien beings are built using javascript (as pictured above in the matrix-esque image) then we definitely have nothing to fear. This phrase should defeat them: "Hi, welcome…

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    Comment #11718509

    Once you guys made it big, you should rename yourselves to RethoughtDB :)

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    Comment #9979046

    Absolutely. That said, be prepared to take a lot of long-haul flights :) YC is a value-add, no matter where you're based out of.

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    Comment #9979025

    Thank you! Actually we believe this can work in all contexts. The immediate value add for the customer is lower prices, better quality, more convenience. We have also seen a lot of…

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    Comment #8873316

    One word: Zen.

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