Its funny because I've found the opposite; the fact that the smaller community (and lets face it - most FP langs have a much smaller community than needed to get the scale you are after) the more it needs to piggy back…
I do think this depends on region, as I've seen F# and Scala jobs typically outnumber Clojure for example depending on whether it is a .NET or Java shop. Mileage does vary. However to be honest anecdotally I do think…
Would be interesting to see actual stats in F# usage which I doubt are relatively available. Given the reaction to this post from what is an old article there's still probably an underground interest in the language and…
Seems like a common theme that people prefer the F# language, but try to explain reasons why it hasn't succeeded from a technical view. I think the reasons IMO aren't technical but what the author has stated - C# is…
There are differences between implicit/pre-emptive and co-operative multitasking though and there is probably tradeoffs for each. For Java however, much of the existing API exposes Threads, and locks. How do you…
I see that in places I've worked. I've always resisted growing my team's headcount as I've seen it break efficiency first hand. However I'm well aware it makes our team less noticed, and less attractive when other…
I've used F# in a professional job and its fine - on very large scale apps for large corps. There's features in it that I feel make certain apps much easier to write that have no equivalent in C# or C# is just starting…
I think this is a problem with many languages - e.g. Scala, Kotlin, etc. The easier justification really is: Does it fit your problem space? Will you save dev time overall, is it more maintainable using this tool? Do…
Just use a mixed solution then i.e. why not both? You're picking one thing that F# isn't great at - generated code tooling which IMO isn't in the spirit of many modern languages anyway. I don't get why some C# devs tend…
My view: F#, or to be honest a cross-platform IDE like VS Code isn't probably appropriate for many of these apps or rather the dev workflow that Microsoft promote in those frameworks feels like old .NET to me. The…
These are nice but: - Templates are no substitute for intuitive and minimal code for a number of reasons. (e.g. how to extend, how to customize, confidence that it isn't brittle if I change one thing, etc etc). If a…
Honestly I've found F# pretty OK to use compared to some other languages, especially when not using Visual Studio on a non-Windows machine where F# IMO is the better choice. Given a cross-development experience in some…
He's linked it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190913-00/?p=10.... Its a good read. The LE format, especially with UUID 7 like UUID (seq UUID's), seems to be easier/faster to sort just using binary…
> "hey, system, go through this btree, pull these items, merge with items from this other btree, etc” What I've always wanted in Postgres in one quote expect to also allow other index types (e.g. Hash/BRIN/etc) in its…
I guess what I don't understand by this proposal is how the exchange rate is actually maintained. Will they print a lot more cash to keep the exchange rate depreciating as thus? The devil will be in the detail of this.
Realising this is what made money a lot easier to understand for me, and simplified the difference between different kinds of money. In the end its easier just to think of them as different currencies with stable pegs.…
I've defined it myself (when doing C# with functional heavy code but it feels clunky) but there's still edge cases where it isn't as nice especially with functions of multiple args, or functions passed in. Sure C# can…
I do think the pipe operator is very tied into the first-class currying support and HM type inference in F#. In C# I think it makes a lot less sense. To be honest I think each language should play to their strengths and…
Integrating the two apps hosted on different platforms is also quite difficult normally. Things you take for granted that need to be shared, reachable, etc between apps all now need to be done manually for that…
Sadly in my experience it is common for F# given its finance background at least historically, particularly in London/Europe. There is a culture of not showing your cards in these environments having worked in a few of…
Different data structures have different tradeoffs that are used for different contexts. Usually arrays are faster than a linked list however I've seen arrays been used pretty badly as well with GC pressure and LOH…
Many of the points here don't necessarily have to do with the language, well at least to me and could easily have occured in other languages such as coding style. Sure - the language uses some sensible defaults and is…
> If the patient is contagious before developing symptoms, the virus can spread very effectively even if many patients die. For better or worse all that means is that viruses may evolve to delay their symptoms rather…
I'm wondering if there is some inherit flaw in coding some data structures in Node/JS. Maybe this is just another case of the "Node tax"? Things like boxing, floating point number arithmetic, manual pop counts, array…
While I personally favour Postgres the biggest thing I think that MySQL has better is the "undo" log vs MVCC vacuum paradigm of Postgres. In a normal running system bad transactions should be significantly rarer than…
Its funny because I've found the opposite; the fact that the smaller community (and lets face it - most FP langs have a much smaller community than needed to get the scale you are after) the more it needs to piggy back…
I do think this depends on region, as I've seen F# and Scala jobs typically outnumber Clojure for example depending on whether it is a .NET or Java shop. Mileage does vary. However to be honest anecdotally I do think…
Would be interesting to see actual stats in F# usage which I doubt are relatively available. Given the reaction to this post from what is an old article there's still probably an underground interest in the language and…
Seems like a common theme that people prefer the F# language, but try to explain reasons why it hasn't succeeded from a technical view. I think the reasons IMO aren't technical but what the author has stated - C# is…
There are differences between implicit/pre-emptive and co-operative multitasking though and there is probably tradeoffs for each. For Java however, much of the existing API exposes Threads, and locks. How do you…
I see that in places I've worked. I've always resisted growing my team's headcount as I've seen it break efficiency first hand. However I'm well aware it makes our team less noticed, and less attractive when other…
I've used F# in a professional job and its fine - on very large scale apps for large corps. There's features in it that I feel make certain apps much easier to write that have no equivalent in C# or C# is just starting…
I think this is a problem with many languages - e.g. Scala, Kotlin, etc. The easier justification really is: Does it fit your problem space? Will you save dev time overall, is it more maintainable using this tool? Do…
Just use a mixed solution then i.e. why not both? You're picking one thing that F# isn't great at - generated code tooling which IMO isn't in the spirit of many modern languages anyway. I don't get why some C# devs tend…
My view: F#, or to be honest a cross-platform IDE like VS Code isn't probably appropriate for many of these apps or rather the dev workflow that Microsoft promote in those frameworks feels like old .NET to me. The…
These are nice but: - Templates are no substitute for intuitive and minimal code for a number of reasons. (e.g. how to extend, how to customize, confidence that it isn't brittle if I change one thing, etc etc). If a…
Honestly I've found F# pretty OK to use compared to some other languages, especially when not using Visual Studio on a non-Windows machine where F# IMO is the better choice. Given a cross-development experience in some…
He's linked it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190913-00/?p=10.... Its a good read. The LE format, especially with UUID 7 like UUID (seq UUID's), seems to be easier/faster to sort just using binary…
> "hey, system, go through this btree, pull these items, merge with items from this other btree, etc” What I've always wanted in Postgres in one quote expect to also allow other index types (e.g. Hash/BRIN/etc) in its…
I guess what I don't understand by this proposal is how the exchange rate is actually maintained. Will they print a lot more cash to keep the exchange rate depreciating as thus? The devil will be in the detail of this.
Realising this is what made money a lot easier to understand for me, and simplified the difference between different kinds of money. In the end its easier just to think of them as different currencies with stable pegs.…
I've defined it myself (when doing C# with functional heavy code but it feels clunky) but there's still edge cases where it isn't as nice especially with functions of multiple args, or functions passed in. Sure C# can…
I do think the pipe operator is very tied into the first-class currying support and HM type inference in F#. In C# I think it makes a lot less sense. To be honest I think each language should play to their strengths and…
Integrating the two apps hosted on different platforms is also quite difficult normally. Things you take for granted that need to be shared, reachable, etc between apps all now need to be done manually for that…
Sadly in my experience it is common for F# given its finance background at least historically, particularly in London/Europe. There is a culture of not showing your cards in these environments having worked in a few of…
Different data structures have different tradeoffs that are used for different contexts. Usually arrays are faster than a linked list however I've seen arrays been used pretty badly as well with GC pressure and LOH…
Many of the points here don't necessarily have to do with the language, well at least to me and could easily have occured in other languages such as coding style. Sure - the language uses some sensible defaults and is…
> If the patient is contagious before developing symptoms, the virus can spread very effectively even if many patients die. For better or worse all that means is that viruses may evolve to delay their symptoms rather…
I'm wondering if there is some inherit flaw in coding some data structures in Node/JS. Maybe this is just another case of the "Node tax"? Things like boxing, floating point number arithmetic, manual pop counts, array…
While I personally favour Postgres the biggest thing I think that MySQL has better is the "undo" log vs MVCC vacuum paradigm of Postgres. In a normal running system bad transactions should be significantly rarer than…