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Why F#?

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438 points bozhidar | 3 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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this_user ◴[01 Apr 25 12:52 UTC] No.43546209[source]▶
Because you love using Microsoft's shitty technologies, but also want to be completely unemployable?
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1. gwbas1c ◴[01 Apr 25 13:23 UTC] No.43546513[source]▶
I've spent my entire career, 22 years, primarily in C#.

I'm quite employable.

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2. wiseowise ◴[01 Apr 25 14:27 UTC] No.43547188[source]▶
> Because you love using Microsoft's shitty technologies

If we go by the joke in gp, this is you.

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3. tialaramex ◴[01 Apr 25 17:30 UTC] No.43549425[source]▶
I don't have any problem with the idea that Microsoft's technologies are "shitty" after all the response of my work laptop to its mandatory Windows 11 upgrade was a non-copyable diagnostic message with an opaque code in it which, as I understand it, is basically the equivalent of "Huh, oops, maybe try again?" and my colleague spent a week trying to uh, share data from a "Sharepoint" table.

But .NET's CLR doesn't seem especially shitty. It's not awesome, I don't feel that RIIR urge when I work with C# and I probably wouldn't with F# either but it's fine, it's like Java again, or maybe Go or Python. It's fine. I don't hate it and that's enough.