Both of these are surprising to me. It is an indentation language, similar to Python which I love. And it was by Microsoft, which makes Visual Studio which I also loved

Yet I found the syntax a lot odder than Python: multiple ways to call methods (C# style and Ocaml style), a wide selection of strange brackets, `.[i]` for array lookup instead of `[i]` (i think they fixed this eventually). And despite Visual Studio being great for C#, its support for F# wasnt up to scratch

I ended up settling on Scala, which is semantically very similar, but with an easier syntax (not perfect, but better) and decent Intellij suppory (again, nowhere near perfext!)