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Why F#?

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447 points bozhidar | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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phplovesong ◴[01 Apr 25 13:37 UTC] No.43546650[source]▶
Last time i tried F# i got bit by the weird concurrency story. There was async/task and somwhow they did not play well together. Also the dev tooling (for vim) was subpar, compared to ocaml (lsp). Compile times also was on the slower side.
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1. neonsunset ◴[01 Apr 25 13:41 UTC] No.43546681[source]▶
If you use task { } CE's you will get really good UX (it is recommended to use them over async CE's). They were introduced in F# 6.0 to address outstanding interoperability issues. As of now, writing asynchronous code is more convenient than C# (which is more convenient than Go or other languages which are less expressive w.r.t. writing highly concurrent code).