Re:Announcing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tool...
by Associat0r on Friday June 28, 2013 @02:24PM
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Why over Scala?
* .NET runs everywhere now without problems, the JVM doesn't have a reliable IOS implementation and Dalvik on Android is too slow for the things I'm doing and many desktops don't come with a JVM installed.
* Better type inference
* FP isolated from OOP
* Lighter indent aware syntax.
* Easier to reason about performance because of lower abstractions
* Pattern matching can be used in performance sensitive situations.
* Easier equational reasononing because FP and OO are isolated from each other.
* Initialization order bugs can't happen easily by design due to the way class ctors work.
* Easy to use Native FFI without having to write boilerplate C stubs
* A generics aware runtime so cross language .NET interop is seamless and without perf cost.
* Built-in Units of measure without perf cost or having to wait for a mature macro'ed implementation..
* Built-in Type Providers allowing typed access to untyped data and much more without having to wait for a mature macro'ed implementation.
* Built-in support for runtime code quoations, with code inspection
* Extensible computation expression syntax for more than just monads.
* .NET runs everywhere now without problems, the JVM doesn't have a reliable IOS implementation and Dalvik on Android is too slow for the things I'm doing and many desktops don't come with a JVM installed.
* Better type inference
* FP isolated from OOP
* Lighter indent aware syntax.
* Easier to reason about performance because of lower abstractions
* Pattern matching can be used in performance sensitive situations.
* Easier equational reasononing because FP and OO are isolated from each other.
* Initialization order bugs can't happen easily by design due to the way class ctors work.
* Easy to use Native FFI without having to write boilerplate C stubs
* A generics aware runtime so cross language .NET interop is seamless and without perf cost.
* Built-in Units of measure without perf cost or having to wait for a mature macro'ed implementation..
* Built-in Type Providers allowing typed access to untyped data and much more without having to wait for a mature macro'ed implementation.
* Built-in support for runtime code quoations, with code inspection
* Extensible computation expression syntax for more than just monads.