Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production?

Re:Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production? by siwatanejo on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:07AM (#29623039)

Why depend on Fable? If something goes wrong, you need to hunt some bug in horrible javascript code. I would still use F# but not Fable.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production? by jordanmarr on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:33PM (#29633520)

For the same reason that people depend on TypeScript. The JS output created by Fable is fine to read, and I very rarely, if ever, need to look at it.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production? by siwatanejo on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:19PM (#29689358)

Note I advocated to use F# but not Fable. You're assuming in your answer that you need to interoperate with JS, why?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production? by isaacabraham79 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:01AM (#29713359)

Because JS is pervasive.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production? by isaacabraham79 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:02AM (#29713365)

What are you thinking of when you say "something goes wrong"?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production? by tunaxor on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:12PM (#29633771)

When you use better tooling like vite/snowpack the code produced by fable is served as is, and it's really close to the F# sources, the webpack bundle used in development is what looks horrible in reality

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Re:Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production? by siwatanejo on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:19PM (#29689363)

My point was not comparing Fable vs plain JavaScript, but F# vs Fable.

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