I wanna see what F# is about, especially now that I am better at FP&Lip. But the Microsoft thing really puts me off. I’m on Linux, I can’t use CLR, I don’t wanna make a WPF application or whatever — so why would I use F#?

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    To my knowledge, it’s just an FP language which can make use of Microsoft’s .NET ecosystem, like Scala and Clojure can make use of the JVM ecosystem…

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      9 months ago

      It’s Microsoft’s OCaml. Its design is focused on the functional paradigm but also facilitates a imperative paradigm as a secondary focus in the design.