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Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by AdeptusAquinas on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:45PM (#9972101)
Because it started with the CEO making a WCF service. Meaning he knew .NET and stuck with what was comfortable - just like StackOverflow's origin.

Best to keep to what you know when you are starting something risky - and there is nothing wrong with the MS stack for this sort of thing.

Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by morgante on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @09:25PM (#9972733)
> Because it started with the CEO making a WCF service.

The CTO, not the CEO.

From what I understand, you are in fact correct though. The CTO happened to be a MS guy, so the whole company had to be MS.

Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by vanessa98 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:54PM (#9972148)
Did you mean "a WTF service"?
Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by umanwizard on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:01PM (#9972189)
Not sure if you're just joking or don't know what WCF is, but in case the latter is true:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731082(v=vs.110)....

Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by vanessa98 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:14PM (#9972264)
Can it be both?
Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by AdeptusAquinas on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:59PM (#9972176)
Although I havent worked with WCF for sometime (Web API is all the rage now), WCF wasnt too bad. Pretty good for making REST services, if you wanted absolute control. They streamlined a lot of the configuration needs in 3.5 and 4.