Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F#
by toolslive on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:55AM
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the advantage of F# over OCaml is that your ecosystem is way larger... you can always 'snarf' c# libraries.
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Indeed but not only C# but all of .Net's. So that gives you quantity.
But more importantly (at least to me) is that the quality of libraries is much higher than those of the JS (which is what I'm more familiar with) ecosystem.
Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F#
by gameswithgo on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:15AM
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and you can use threads
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sure, but c# ecosystem is nothing compared to jvm, rails, go, js etc..
Huh, I haven't had any library issues with c# for years. Although your right, the js and jvm ecosystems are larger. I don't think it is an issue.
Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F#
by moron4hire on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:10PM
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There is definitely a quantity vs quality issue in the JS world. I don't think it's fair to say JS' ecosystem is better than C#'s because it's bigger. There's a hell of a lot of shit code on NPM.
Sure, but there's no equivalently mature OCaml-like language for the JVM (Scala doesn't count)
Asking as someone with no OCaml experience but who quite enjoys Scala, why does it not count?
They are radically different languages, even if they're from the same family. Scala is about as similar to OCaml as Rust is to OCaml. Rust and Scala are a world apart from OCaml and Standard ML in terms of language complexity.
And then F# literally has an OCaml compat mode because they are so similar (F# has a bunch of convenient syntax extensions if you don't mind not using the compat mode).
I don't know OCaml, so I can't give you a great answer, but I know that OCaml has a different type system that has some features that Scala 2 lacks, such as union types.