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Why F#?

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438 points bozhidar | 5 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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loxs ◴[01 Apr 25 14:23 UTC] No.43547130[source]▶
I tried F# some years back when I was searching for a language to port my OCaml project in... It felt too much .NET-y and too much MicroSoft-y. And back then .net for linux had just been released and was somewhat unpolished.

It seemed that I had to learn C# in order to use F# properly and it seemed that porting it to C# was the saner option. I went with Rust after all and it seems to have been the right choice.

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1. airstrike ◴[01 Apr 25 16:19 UTC] No.43548583[source]▶
This rings true to me as well. I'm not sure what I get out of F# that I can't get from Rust, unless you specifically want .NET, which I don't.
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2. UK-Al05 ◴[02 Apr 25 09:58 UTC] No.43555145[source]▶
Less arduous memory management.
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3. airstrike ◴[02 Apr 25 13:01 UTC] No.43556195[source]▶
I am not sure what you mean. My memory management for a recent 30k LOC app boils down to "thinking before cloning"
4. DeathArrow ◴[02 Apr 25 15:16 UTC] No.43557637[source]▶
You get speed of development, productivity, lots of libraries. You get something that is easy to learn and understand.
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5. airstrike ◴[02 Apr 25 15:28 UTC] No.43557782[source]▶
Lots of libraries if you want .NET, right? But if you don't, Rust has way more libraries

Speed of development is debatable. I think you can be pretty fast with both.

Easy to learn I concede but it gets easier with time, until it becomes very easy