Re:Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional program...
by pyjarrett on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:55AM
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> IMHO a really underrated feature of Rust is how friendly its tooling is towards its users. I'd really like to see something like that for functional programming.
> abysmal tooling around them
F# has amazing tooling.
Debugging works out of the box in Visual Studio and Rider, and it's impure enough I was able to get comfortable quickly and .NET core has a crazy amount built in (e.g. no fuss JSON serialization). I ported a project from C# to F# and the old bash/powershell scripts to publish a standalone executable are now just F# scripts you run with `dotnet fsi`.
> abysmal tooling around them
F# has amazing tooling.
Debugging works out of the box in Visual Studio and Rider, and it's impure enough I was able to get comfortable quickly and .NET core has a crazy amount built in (e.g. no fuss JSON serialization). I ported a project from C# to F# and the old bash/powershell scripts to publish a standalone executable are now just F# scripts you run with `dotnet fsi`.