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shermantanktop ◴[01 Apr 25 15:00 UTC] No.43547600[source]▶

> Trivia: F# is the language that made the pipeline operator (|>) popular.

I’m not a dabbler in exotic languages, so this definition of “popular” was puzzling. I’ve literally never seen that operator before. Maybe I need to get out more.

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1. sdsd ◴[02 Apr 25 18:03 UTC] No.43559469[source]▶

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I've used it in Racket, which is not exactly "popular" but common in universities as a teaching language. I actually built a fairly popular Tor hidden search engine in Racket nearly a decade ago, but I quickly shut it down when I ran some stats on the most common queries.

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Why F#?