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#?
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#?
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…
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.