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ML?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) (first paragraphs and "influenced by") https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-influences-of-the-ML-lang... ...
I just started learning F# with the help of a well known F# dev. It's been a fun challenge. Give yourself the chance to try it out. Do check out http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com Its a great resource.
And lots of good tutorial/ideas
I've recently got back in to F#, one thing I like is the fact you can leverage the world of .NET For instance, first thing I did was I used suave.io to expose a webservice for a digital IO module ( http://www.mccdaq.com/ ) and it amounted to around 50 ish lines of code. Runs flawlessly. The F# community is pretty awesome as well with a good ratio between experts and people learning the language.
fsharp would really take off if it had a framework as attractive as phoenix.
There are zero Elixir jobs on my part of the planet.
Whereas F# is on my PC thanks to a full VS install done by IT, and I can at least use it instead of Powershell.
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SuaveIO is really nice to work with. Peformance is terrible but that could be fixed. Its on my list of things to have a go at improving some time with some PRs. I think the big low hanging fruit would be switching from async await to either Hopac or TPL, which is above my pay grade but there are lrobably othwr areas that could be tweaked. I encourage perf junkies to have a go at it, as it wonderful to work with.
the Suave extension for ASP.NET Core ( https://www.nuget.org/packages/Suave.AspNetCore/ ) is fast and you can use lots of suave specific features, with same performant kestrel as base, because suave is added as middleware. Or there is also a new attempt ( https://github.com/dustinmoris/AspNetCore.Lambda ) to use api similar to suave, more integrated with asp.net core itself (security/auth/etc).
I'm currently learning F#, and liked everything so far, in particular that you can learn both functional style as well as interaction with existing .net apis, which allows you to build typical use-cases faster (as you would know them from imperative/oo languages, like building a small crawler). I wish there was a good ML-style language for the JVM. VS Code has good integration, check out the Ionide plugin. For a lang…
> I wish there was a good ML-style language for the JVM. Scala?
There is actually a really interesting (to me) discussion going on about where Scala sits on the Intersection of Java,ML & Haskell going on in the r/Scala subreddit at the moment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/5sv1w5/the_divergenc...
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> I wish there was a good ML-style language for the JVM. Scala?
This! Don't be fooled by the prevalence of Haskell-like libraries and patterns in the Scala community (or a vocal subset). Those are absolutely useful but you're free to use them or not, and if you want to just write ML style functional code then Scala is great for that too. There is actually a really interesting (to me) discussion going on about where Scala sits on the Intersection of Java,ML & Haskell going on in t…
I was/am expecting Haskell to be broadly similar to ML - what's the main way the two languages differ?
edit: never mind, from the reddit discussion you linked:
> while these languages are undoubtedly strongly typed, they are not referentially transparent by default, and actually embrace some levels of imperative programming.
Good read, thanks!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) (first paragraphs and "influenced by") https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-influences-of-the-ML-lang... ...
Ok, yeah, influenced. Javascript could also be called a LISP with C-Syntax, but that wouldn't make it a LISP. But I get what you mean.
But Scala indeed is very similar to (1) OCaml and then (2) ML, and last, (3) Haskell in terms of type inference, syntax, and many other FP concepts [1].
I'm currently learning F#, and liked everything so far, in particular that you can learn both functional style as well as interaction with existing .net apis, which allows you to build typical use-cases faster (as you would know them from imperative/oo languages, like building a small crawler). I wish there was a good ML-style language for the JVM. VS Code has good integration, check out the Ionide plugin. For a lang…
github.com/Frege and eta-lang.org may be tried out
I just started learning F# with the help of a well known F# dev. It's been a fun challenge. Give yourself the chance to try it out. Do check out http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com Its a great resource.
I just started learning F# with the help of a well known F# dev. It's been a fun challenge. Give yourself the chance to try it out. Do check out http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com Its a great resource.