Rediscovering .NET: A First Look at F#
2025-04-01
After a 15-year hiatus, the author returns to the .NET world, driven by curiosity about the functional programming language F#. The article delves into F#'s features, such as lightweight syntax, immutability, and type inference, illustrating its conciseness and power with code examples. A comparison between F# and OCaml highlights F#'s strengths and weaknesses, along with its applications in web development and data science. Despite its relatively small community, the author finds it vibrant and active, concluding that F# is a fun and practical language worth exploring for .NET developers.
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