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Start-ups should strongly consider F#. It's a force multiplier when you have a small team of strong developers.

What should we use instead?

> Why two cloud providers? Initially we used only DigitalOcean, but a data intensive SaaS like tap needs a lot of cloud resources and AWS have a generous $1,000 credit package for …

> Of course you can inspect it: open the source code you wrote and read it. Also, don't write the code you don't want to be executed? This is not what they meant by inspection . Wh…

This seems like a cool article, but it isn't readable without Haskell background knowledge. > For an intuition why this is true, consider that the constant functor Const r has an A…

Weird feeling knowing that an ecommerce / wallet store has employees with more advanced programming knowledge than most financial institutions.

1. Wrapping is more code than using a built-in pipe operator 2. There is a run-time overhead to wrapping IMO a design goal of programming langauges should be for the most readable …

There is more than one proposal; the F#-style one doesn't have the (weird) placeholder syntax. > You can still make it work by adding it to the prototype This is exactly what we wa…

Pipes are great where you want to chain several operations together. Piping is very common in statically typed functional langauges, where there are lots of different types in play…

Sad that the pipe operator proposal seems to have stalled. The F# version of the proposal was probably the simplest choice.

Brexit made this far less likely - but perhaps people in France, Germany, Spain, etc. could do this.

Functional Programming hasn't even been tried for game development, really. There is a lack of overlap between the game dev industry and academia. The studios are (rightly) risk av…

You should put this online somewhere!

Expect a wave of artists moving into education to make ends meet.

Also a bit scary to have a system without a scaling mechnism built-in in the path of customer traffic. At some point you may be racing to upgrade it.

Python is really bad at recursion (part of why it's not appropriate for functional programming), so perhaps an unfair benchmark? A Pythonic implementation would use loops and mutat…

I think what Meta is doing is really smart. We don't really know where AI will be useful in a business sense yet (the apps with users are losing money) but a good bet is that incum…

Terraform is not really a competitor. Maybe Nomad is? I expect most K8s shops use a bit of Terraform, maybe Vault, etc.

Could easily be leverage in the negotiation.