I was deterred by "weirder" syntax and .NET (using basically only Linux), and generally I felt I'm not missing anything in Haskell compared to it - but I don't have strong feelings about it and would probably pick it over e.g. Scala
Have any of the Haskellers here tried learning F#? What are your thoughts?
I did, couple months ago. I also participate in its mentorship program. It is a good language, and fun to code with it. But I stopped learning it because F# tooling in Nix is not so good.
I want to start again next week, but on my Windows. At least Visual Studio 2019 community Edition/VScode is enough to start developing F#
But I stopped learning it because F# tooling in Nix is not so good
Turns out, with .Net 5 and F# 5.0, dotnet in Nix is ready for F# development. However, Xamarin (mobile development) is still only available through Visual Studio or JetBrain Rider.
I have figured it is better to give up on Nix when doing F# dev. Also I have a windows machine, so that works - but deploying published binaries on nixos will require some patching (not on Ubuntu).
Have any of the Haskellers here tried learning F#? What are your thoughts?
I was deterred by "weirder" syntax and .NET (using basically only Linux), and generally I felt I'm not missing anything in Haskell compared to it - but I don't have strong feelings about it and would probably pick it over e.g. Scala
Sridhar Ratnakumar said:
I did, couple months ago. I also participate in its mentorship program. It is a good language, and fun to code with it. But I stopped learning it because F# tooling in Nix is not so good.
I want to start again next week, but on my Windows. At least Visual Studio 2019 community Edition/VScode is enough to start developing F#
Also, we automatically have
.Netrich ecosystem. It's easy to import library written in C# to be used in F#Turns out, with .Net 5 and F# 5.0,
dotnetin Nix is ready for F# development. However, Xamarin (mobile development) is still only available through Visual Studio or JetBrain Rider.I have figured it is better to give up on Nix when doing F# dev. Also I have a windows machine, so that works - but deploying published binaries on nixos will require some patching (not on Ubuntu).
https://notes.srid.ca/fsharp-exploration
@Sridhar Ratnakumar are you still playing with f#?
Nope, I had gone back to Haskell.