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http://fsharp.org/use/linux/ feel free to give F# a try. Apple hardware ( or MSFT tax) not required.

many of the concerns the op had where with marketing of the f# ecosystem. For example the tooling issues he mention are solved with a Visual Studio Extension http://visualstudiogal…

F# and its Type Providers have a strong cross platform story. http://fsharp.org/use/linux/ All the dlls referenced in the OP work on non windows platforms.

The benefit of using a Type Provider over an CSV is it provides a strongly typed api to the data. Which gives you tooling (IntelliSense) and makes it hard to impossible to have typ…

F# Its a functional first open sources language that works on Max/Windows. Interops with R, Python, MATLAB, Mathematica, Java Give it a try here. http://www.tryfsharp.org/Learn/dat…

Being serous, who uses Go and why? The reasons are similar to why one should use F#