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Re: Introducing F# 4.0

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 01, 2015, 8:54 AM UTC

kirse wrote: post #63

crdoconnor wrote: post #61

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I was referring to its terseness, simplicity, extensibility and the large ecosystem surrounding it. I said that Django is a better framework for this reason, not your straw man reason. Scalability is barely an issue. You can horizontally scale both frameworks virtually endlessly if you maintain application statelessness. Dick measuring contests about which company uses what and has the most pageviews do not contribut…

I was referring to its terseness, simplicity, extensibility and the large ecosystem surrounding it. I said that Django is a better framework for this reason, not your straw man reason. You're going to have to link me to the comment where you "referred to" and "said" all of that, because this was all I saw: Where's the Django for .NET? and Does the same sort of thing, but is not nearly as good. So maybe I got foolishl…

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Re: Introducing F# 4.0

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Post by Guillaume86 » Fri, May 01, 2015, 10:04 AM UTC

marpstar wrote: post #58

mistermann wrote: post #48

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Could you post any comparison code demonstrating the terseness, or suggest a good site that might demonstrate this?

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/classes/ starts off with a C# vs. F# class declaration example. Particularly when you want to create a class with 3 member properties and a constructor accepting those 3 properties as parameters, you can achieve that in 4 lines of F# vs. 8 (non-curly brace) lines of C#. This sort of conciseness is found all over the language as you keep digging deeper. I really recommend Scott W…

Just to nit-pick: C# 6 should bring this particular case on par with F# if I remember well.

Re: Introducing F# 4.0

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Post by M8 » Fri, May 01, 2015, 11:41 AM UTC

TillE wrote: post #24

msutherl wrote: post #20

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Subjective, but I've never met a C# developer and I know approximately zero developers who run Windows.

Not everyone is a web developer or working on mobile apps. Games and business software are two huge industries which are almost entirely Windows. Everyone using the massively popular Unity engine is a C# developer.

> Not everyone is ... working on mobile apps

http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-passes-1-million-developer-m...