F# is gaining independence from .NET
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F# is gaining independence from .NET
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Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#2F# is a great language, but the .NET community never embraced it.
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#3The love for F# is justified because it's really a clean language with a well-defined core library.
The one bad thing about it is that the documentation is really insufficient and confusing to people who don't already know .NET. If this improves it will definitely be welcome be more devs and companies.
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#4F# is a great language, but the .NET community never embraced it.
It's a real shame, but not unexpected. The vast majority of programmers I meet in the wild simply do not have training in FP and by the time they decide to learn it (if they do), it's hard to unlearn "traditional" thinking.
If we want to steer programming in that direction, we should teach functional programming before "traditional" programming. However, even if we manage to do that I'm not convinced that it will make a different. People think procedural and it seems that the abstraction of first order functions is hard.
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#5F# is a great language, but the .NET community never embraced it.
It's a real shame, but not unexpected. The vast majority of programmers I meet in the wild simply do not have training in FP and by the time they decide to learn it (if they do), it's hard to unlearn "traditional" thinking. If we want to steer programming in that direction, we should teach functional programming before "traditional" programming. However, even if we manage to do that I'm not convinced that it will mak…
As a .NET developer I don't see any reason to use F# professionally. C#/CPP are tools just like a hammer, F# is a different hammer, it doesn't seem to offer advantages in my field other than being different...
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#6I'm learning F# now. The language is nice but pulling dependencies into the interactive shell is proving difficult. After a few attempts I found I could use #r to pull in dependencies. Then I found where the NuGet packages were hiding in my home dir. Finally I could reference the Fsharp.Data.dll! Then XML type provider not found....
Frustrating when I just want to play around.
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a real shame, but not unexpected. The vast majority of programmers I meet in the wild simply do not have training in FP and by the time they decide to learn it (if they do), it's hard to unlearn "traditional" thinking. If we want to steer programming in that direction, we should teach functional programming before "traditional" programming. However, even if we manage to do that I'm not convinced that it will mak…
As a .NET developer I don't see any reason to use F# professionally. C#/CPP are tools just like a hammer, F# is a different hammer, it doesn't seem to offer advantages in my field other than being different...
The functional hammer can be a little easier to reason about. So you can understand your application a little more.
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a real shame, but not unexpected. The vast majority of programmers I meet in the wild simply do not have training in FP and by the time they decide to learn it (if they do), it's hard to unlearn "traditional" thinking. If we want to steer programming in that direction, we should teach functional programming before "traditional" programming. However, even if we manage to do that I'm not convinced that it will mak…
As a .NET developer I don't see any reason to use F# professionally. C#/CPP are tools just like a hammer, F# is a different hammer, it doesn't seem to offer advantages in my field other than being different...
It allows you to envision your application as a series of data transforms, instead of a list of steps. This allows much more proximal abstractions for tasks involving data manipulation.
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#9I'm learning F# now. The language is nice but pulling dependencies into the interactive shell is proving difficult. After a few attempts I found I could use #r to pull in dependencies. Then I found where the NuGet packages were hiding in my home dir. Finally I could reference the Fsharp.Data.dll! Then XML type provider not found.... Frustrating when I just want to play around.
Cough: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tools/fsharp-...
Should be a bit easier!
Re: F# is gaining independence from .NET
#10I like F# a lot but never used it past toy projects. Are there open source examples of decent Elmish WPF based production applications?