News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on F# is gaining independence from .NET. Parent comment

Re:F# is gaining independence from .NET by pjmlp on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:16AM (#25988349)
Without the Visual Studio tools for GUI and database modeling, so it ends up being just usable for writing general purpose libraries.

So, we just carry on using VB.NET, C# and C++ instead.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:F# is gaining independence from .NET by chrisseaton on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:40AM (#25988560)
Isn't 'writing general purpose libraries' most programming? I think GUIs and database modelling are pretty niche.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:F# is gaining independence from .NET by pjmlp on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:47AM (#25988610)
Code isn't written in isolation unless we are speaking about programming interviews.

Libraries spring to life as reusable parts from large scale projects.

So the ROI of context switching to F# in the middle of a project, isn't that much if the language is reduced to expressing algorithms.

[ Parent | on HN ]