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Re:Why Use F#? by piaste on Thursday December 13, 2018 @07:35AM (#18671852)
https://fable.io/repl/

This is a F# -> Javascript compiler and environment, itself running in your browser (in Javascript, obviously).

https://github.com/kjnilsson/fez

This is a project running F# on BEAM (Erlang).

So yes, of course you _can_ write a compiler from F# to whatever platform you choose. It's just a really major effort, in no small part because F# is a way, _way_ higher-level language than C (you'll remember 'worse is better' - a big deal with C is that it's easy to write a compiler for).

Re:Why Use F#? by kazinator on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:05PM (#18674501)
> a big deal with C is that it's easy to write a compiler for

We are still feverishly at it in 2018 and there is no end in sight.

> It's just a really major effort

That is neither here nor there.