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FrustratedMonkyyesterday at 1:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

F# is one of the biggest 'What could have beens'. Great language, that just didn't hit the right time, or reach critical mass of the gestalt of the community.


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nobleachyesterday at 9:00 PM

I convinced one boss to let me spike out a project with it. I was in love with OCaml at the time. OCaml's docs are... I'm just going to say it, they're terrible. F# on the other hand, has fantastic docs. In the end, the only real gripe I had was the significant whitespace. I'm just not a fan.

nbevansyesterday at 1:51 PM

It uses far less tokens than C#, so watch this space...

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