On moving code from C# to F#

Re:On moving code from C# to F# by carlosnunez on Saturday March 19, 2016 @07:25PM (#11320981)

I LOVE F#. I wish I could use it more often. I haven't used it since I worked at Jane Street three years ago, and Jet.com is the only other place that's using it seriously at the moment.

It is such an expressive and clear language to write code in. That is until you start needing to use imperative .NET types :)

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Re:On moving code from C# to F# by chadzawistowski on Saturday March 19, 2016 @07:36PM (#11321014)

I thought Jane Street used OCaml! (I know the two are similar.) Why did they need to target the CLR?

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Re:On moving code from C# to F# by thristian on Sunday March 20, 2016 @12:05AM (#11321749)

Just a guess: even if your back-end is all OCaml, traders still want to get data into Excel to play with it.

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Re:On moving code from C# to F# by carlosnunez on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:21PM (#11339225)

Yes, Jane Street uses OCaml for their trading systems but we also use(d?) F# for some (very important) odds and ends.

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Re:On moving code from C# to F# by jackfoxy on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:05AM (#11321893)

F# is our primary language at Tachyus.

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