OCaml 4.08 - Hackdot

Re:OCaml 4.08 by Barrin92 on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:41PM (#20185513)

I'm always surprised that F# didn't take off. It's a great language and in addition to the strenghts of ML you have the .net ecosystem and Microsoft behind it.

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Re:OCaml 4.08 by jetti on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:53PM (#20185640)

It took awhile before it seemed that Microsoft was truly behind it. I tried looking into it when version 2.0 was released and it was a pain in the ass trying to get it to work with Visual Studio 2010 Express. I was not a professional programmer at that time so I didn't have access to Visual Studio Pro. That experience turned me off to the language and I never really went back to look at it.

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Re:OCaml 4.08 by mruts on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:45PM (#20185558)

There’s some hedge funds using F#. C# has historically been popular in certain parts of finance any many of those shops are now exclusively using F# for new code.

Personally, F# is nice and all, but the lack of higher kinded types rubs me the wrong way.

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Re:OCaml 4.08 by np_tedious on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:48PM (#20187302)

Jet uses F# almost exclusively

https://github.com/jet

https://link.medium.com/spjuV2aAwX

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Re:OCaml 4.08 by pjmlp on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:22AM (#20188935)

Jet might not exist for much longer.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-jet-com/jetcom-fa...

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Re:OCaml 4.08 by iLemming on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:07AM (#20194612)

I think C# is "worse is better" of F#. That is why sadly, F# never become as popular, as it could have.

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Re:OCaml 4.08 by pjmlp on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:05PM (#20187041)

Microsoft isn't that much behind it.

VB.NET, C# and even C++/CLI get all the nice .NET toys, while F# gets to play in some of them.

It was even left out of the WinUI 3 roadmap.

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