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Why F#?

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441 points bozhidar | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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eknkc ◴[01 Apr 25 12:45 UTC] No.43546122[source]▶
As far as I can tell F# is one of those things where every single user is extremely happy. This happens rarely and I really am curious about the thing but never had time to get into it. I'm also pretty well versed in the .net ecosystem so it's probably gonna be easy.

Any tips? What kind of workflows might benefit the most if I were to incorporate it (to learn..)?

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piokoch ◴[01 Apr 25 12:52 UTC] No.43546205[source]▶
"As far as I can tell F# is one of those things where every single user is extremely happy" Isn't it because language has rather small community of passionate people, who are devoted to their language of choice?

F# popularity is somewhere between CHILL, Clipper and Raku langs, that are probably as obscure as F# for typical software dev.

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psychoslave ◴[01 Apr 25 16:21 UTC] No.43548620[source]▶
I know Raku from Perl fame, and F# because it’s Microsoft, but CHILL and Clipper are totally new to me, so in my own humble experience these two latter look far more obscure. :D
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1. orthoxerox ◴[01 Apr 25 20:27 UTC] No.43550982[source]▶
Clipper is old. It's dBase/xBase/FoxPro, pre-SQL DBMSs.