Re:Safer Enums in Go
by OliverGilan on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:39AM
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Starting a new project and trying to decide between Go and F# of all things. Go seems fast and very widely used which means resources and help is widely available and it’ll be easier to find contributors.
Meanwhile coming from the C# world at my job I really like the syntax of F# from what I’ve seen so far. The type system seems incredibly expressive in a way Go’s isn’t, access to C# libraries means I can do pretty much anything I’ll need to, and I enjoy FP paradigms even though I’m not looking for full FP (I generally like loops and escape hatches from FP if I need to do something specific).
What’s your experience with F#? I’m worried about support and finding other people familiar with the language, not a huge fan of nuget, and I prefer to use VSCode but C# has been impossible to program in VSCode imo.
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I’ve had a great experience with F#. It’s now my preferred language in almost all cases, and it’s plenty fast enough for the vast majority of applications. I use Visual Studio and the UX is excellent. (A lot of F# developers use Paket instead of Nuget.)
MS seems committed to F# as at least a source of future C# language enhancement ideas (although C# will never fully catch up). There’s also a vibrant F# community on Stack Overflow, Reddit, etc. I never have trouble getting help if I need it.