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Indeed. The company I work for uses F# for large revenue workloads across many services; mostly coming from non .NET dev's. It handles large scale customer traffic quite well witho…

Its funny because I've found the opposite; the fact that the smaller community (and lets face it - most FP langs have a much smaller community than needed to get the scale you are …

I do think this depends on region, as I've seen F# and Scala jobs typically outnumber Clojure for example depending on whether it is a .NET or Java shop. Mileage does vary. However…

Would be interesting to see actual stats in F# usage which I doubt are relatively available. Given the reaction to this post from what is an old article there's still probably an u…

Seems like a common theme that people prefer the F# language, but try to explain reasons why it hasn't succeeded from a technical view. I think the reasons IMO aren't technical but…

There are differences between implicit/pre-emptive and co-operative multitasking though and there is probably tradeoffs for each. For Java however, much of the existing API exposes…

I see that in places I've worked. I've always resisted growing my team's headcount as I've seen it break efficiency first hand. However I'm well aware it makes our team less notice…

I've used F# in a professional job and its fine - on very large scale apps for large corps. There's features in it that I feel make certain apps much easier to write that have no e…

I think this is a problem with many languages - e.g. Scala, Kotlin, etc. The easier justification really is: Does it fit your problem space? Will you save dev time overall, is it m…

Just use a mixed solution then i.e. why not both? You're picking one thing that F# isn't great at - generated code tooling which IMO isn't in the spirit of many modern languages an…

My view: F#, or to be honest a cross-platform IDE like VS Code isn't probably appropriate for many of these apps or rather the dev workflow that Microsoft promote in those framewor…

These are nice but: - Templates are no substitute for intuitive and minimal code for a number of reasons. (e.g. how to extend, how to customize, confidence that it isn't brittle if…

I think that's the barrier with C# in general - the framework nature of it means there's a lot of "I don't know what I don't know" especially with ASP.NET which is quite large in s…

Honestly I've found F# pretty OK to use compared to some other languages, especially when not using Visual Studio on a non-Windows machine where F# IMO is the better choice. Given …

He's linked it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190913-00/?p=10... . Its a good read. The LE format, especially with UUID 7 like UUID (seq UUID's), seems to be ea…

This is what I think .NET's generics are like. Type information including all parameters are available, and JIT does as you say. The approach has some advantages (binary size, less…

> "hey, system, go through this btree, pull these items, merge with items from this other btree, etc” What I've always wanted in Postgres in one quote expect to also allow other in…

I guess what I don't understand by this proposal is how the exchange rate is actually maintained. Will they print a lot more cash to keep the exchange rate depreciating as thus? Th…

Realising this is what made money a lot easier to understand for me, and simplified the difference between different kinds of money. In the end its easier just to think of them as …

I've defined it myself (when doing C# with functional heavy code but it feels clunky) but there's still edge cases where it isn't as nice especially with functions of multiple args…

I do think the pipe operator is very tied into the first-class currying support and HM type inference in F#. In C# I think it makes a lot less sense. To be honest I think each lang…

Integrating the two apps hosted on different platforms is also quite difficult normally. Things you take for granted that need to be shared, reachable, etc between apps all now nee…

Sadly in my experience it is common for F# given its finance background at least historically, particularly in London/Europe. There is a culture of not showing your cards in these …

Different data structures have different tradeoffs that are used for different contexts. Usually arrays are faster than a linked list however I've seen arrays been used pretty badl…

Many of the points here don't necessarily have to do with the language, well at least to me and could easily have occured in other languages such as coding style. Sure - the langua…