Re: It's that time of year - F#

Thanks all. Greg, unfortunately you are spot on. The more I use F#, the more I see my productivity and quality naturally increase on my home projects, especially once they start to get a bit complicated. I have always been firmly in the C# camp, but now that I have a good understanding of F# I

RE: It's that time of year - F#

In fact, the messaging changed fairly abruptly. Compare Kathleen’s article in Nov 2018: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vbteam/visual-basic-in-net-core-3-0/ With the one 15 months later: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vbteam/visual-basic-support-planned-for-net-5-0/ Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low

RE: It's that time of year - F#

Hi David, The one that’s always fascinated me is the disappearance of simulation languages. In the 80’s I remember looking at Simula 68, and being amazed at what it offered. For something written in 68, having concepts like classes, and instances of classes, etc. was all pretty awesome. There

Re: It's that time of year - F#

I'll ask around and get back to you. From: David Burstin via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 3:40 PM To: ozDotNet Cc: David Burstin Subject: It's that time of year - F# Hi folks, It's been about a year since I asked, so here it is again. Does anyone know

RE: It's that time of year - F#

It has to be a pretty "brave" or "interesting" choice for a dev team lead though doesn't it ? (depending upon your perspective) Unless you're doing something really, really out of the ordinary, choosing to use a language where there's even a possibility of an actual list of companies who use

RE: It's that time of year - F#

Announcements like these were pretty terminal I’d say: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2020/03/12/vb-in-net-5.aspx Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com | About

RE: It's that time of year - F#

I asked Don and he pointed me to https://github.com/fsprojects/fsharp-companies, which lists a few. From: David Kean via ozdotnet Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 8:11 AM To: David Burstin via ozdotnet Cc: David Burstin ; David Kean Subject: Re: It's that time of year - F# I'll ask around and

Re: It's that time of year - F#

A lot of the early advantages of F# have eventually come to C# over the years - higher order functions, immutability, type inference, pattern matching, etc so that can't be helping F# adoption. I remember seeing a slide from MS Build several years back that indicated an order of magnitude

Re: It's that time of year - F#

> > Mind you, there have been many interesting languages over the years. And > their fate has not always seemed logical. > I think a year ago I said something like ... I was excited about F# when it first came out, but never got to write any production software using it. Whenever I sat down to