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 fewer VB.NET developers than C#, and it
was two orders of magnitude for F#. The original presentation escapes
me, but I found the slide here with Eric Sink talking about F# in 2019:
https://ericsink.com/entries/fsharp_incremental.html
-Tony
On 29/06/2022 09:33, Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet wrote:
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 it would seem awfully hard to
justify. Given there are 4 listed in Australia, and on average pretty
small, I wonder how many of those did so because they wanted to find a
place to use it. I’m sure there will be more, but even so, that’s
quite something.
I certainly remember the hype when it appeared.
Mind you, there have been many interesting languages over the years.
And their fate has not always seemed logical.
Regards,
Greg
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*From:*David Kean via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, 29 June 2022 9:06 AM
*To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
*Cc:* David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com>; David Kean
<david.k...@microsoft.com>
*Subject:* 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 <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 29, 2022 8:11 AM
*To:* David Burstin via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
*Cc:* David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com>; David Kean
<david.k...@microsoft.com>
*Subject:* Re: It's that time of year - F#
I'll ask around and get back to you.
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*From:*David Burstin via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
*Sent:* Friday, June 24, 2022 3:40 PM
*To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
*Cc:* David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com>
*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 of any F# work being done in Melbourne, or anywhere in Australia?
I've managed to do some small F# helper apps for my employer, but 98%
of what I do is C#. I'd really love to find somewhere that uses F#.
On the plus side - F# has helped improve my C# approach dramatically,
and C# is constantly introducing more functional ideas (although
discriminated unions and active patterns would be lovely).
So, anyone know anything?
Cheers
David
