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Sometimes I fantasise about what would've happened if MS had decided, by some fluke, to push, say, OCaml as their big .Net initiative. Can you imagine MS Visual OCaml#? OCaml for Windows app development ... that would've turned some heads.



You mean instead of C#? Their pushing F# a bit now


Exactly, instead of creating a Java clone, what if they'd decided to use a well-understood existing functional language with an elegant module and object system from the very beginning....


F# is a great project and we have a passionate community behind it, certainly a good thing to try if you're into functional programming


I'm getting into Elixir for my functional programming fix. I had looked into F# awhile ago but it wasn't for me at the time




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