Re:Why your F# evangelism isn't working
by e12e on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:13AM
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Curious about what one of your typical "practical exercises" looks like?
I'm not a great fan of f# (it's not rational - but every time I've tried to dip my toes, something in the syntax has felt... Tedious? In a way that for example StandardML does not). But it still seems like an eminently powerful and pragmatic language, so I'm surprised by your experience.
Fascinating that fsharpers trip up on ad- hoc json wrangling - to be fair i used to agonize over nested lists/association lists in lisp - rather than doing the "professional" thing and YOLO assume that three levels down, behind :user - there's a fifth element :email...
I'm not a great fan of f# (it's not rational - but every time I've tried to dip my toes, something in the syntax has felt... Tedious? In a way that for example StandardML does not). But it still seems like an eminently powerful and pragmatic language, so I'm surprised by your experience.
Ed: I see this was addressed downthread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133560
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133578
Fascinating that fsharpers trip up on ad- hoc json wrangling - to be fair i used to agonize over nested lists/association lists in lisp - rather than doing the "professional" thing and YOLO assume that three levels down, behind :user - there's a fifth element :email...