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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by atlasM on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:38PM (#17189757)
I’ve taken a look at Clojure and Haskell and I’m really liking them. How to F# and Erlang compare in terms of use case?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by jxub on Thursday May 31, 2018 @01:05PM (#17198019)
Erlang is really good for any messaging and/or distributed system, but fails short of power for number-crunching, however you could write any compute-intensive parts in C/Rust and make a NIF link to them.

I think that F# it's the go-to functional language for interfacing with rest of the Microsoft stack, and with the .NET platform. It's also pretty widely used in the trading systems niche, but it hasn't exploded yet in popularity.

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