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Why F#?

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441 points bozhidar | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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rockyj ◴[01 Apr 25 13:08 UTC] No.43546371[source]▶
I did try F#, but I was new to .NET ecosystem. For 1 "hello world" I was quite surprised by how many project files and boilerplate was generated by .NET, which put me off.

I am all for FP, immutable, and modern languages. But then where are the jobs and which companies care if you write good code?

Now everyone wants languages which are easy to use with AI, while reducing workforce and "increased productivity". I have been programming for 20 years and know 4-5 languages, in India it was worse but in EU at-least I can make a sustainable living by writing Java / TypeScript. I cannot even find jobs with Kotlin + TypeScript which pay well, forget getting jobs in Elixir / Clojure / F# (there maybe a handful of opportunities if I will relocate for around 70K/year). That is why I have mostly given up on learning niche languages.

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1. tester756 ◴[01 Apr 25 15:07 UTC] No.43547691[source]▶
>" I was quite surprised by how many project files and boilerplate was generated by .NET, which put me off.

With which language are you comparing with?

Because there's afaik csproj and maybe .sln

and both of them are let's be frank - foundational for almost all projects that arent just hello world.

Otherwise you end up with some cmakes or something similar that want to achieve something similar