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Why F#?

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447 points bozhidar | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.28s | source
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darksaints ◴[01 Apr 25 18:08 UTC] No.43549778[source]▶
I'm completely convinced that F# (along with Scala, Haskell, and OCaml) adoption has stalled due to having ridiculously bad build systems. More significantly, they are being passed up in favor of Rust, which is a great language but nonetheless a bad fit for a lot of problem domains, simply because Rust has a superior build system. Hell, 80% of the reason I choose Rust over C++ for embedded work is because of the build system.

It baffles me that there are languages with non-profit foundations and are financially backed by multiple corporations which still have bad build systems. It is the most important investment you can make into a programming language.

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1. germandiago ◴[02 Apr 25 13:21 UTC] No.43556392[source]▶
I use C++ with Meson and Conan and I can say that there is an initial learning curve if you need to adapt Conan recipes but once you get past, the results are quite good.