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ZenoArrowlast Tuesday at 7:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Did you consider using F#? The language is very similar to OCaml, but it has the added benefit of good tooling and a large package ecosystem (can use any .NET package).


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Hasnepyesterday at 1:05 AM

I've heard a lot of good things about F#, but I've also heard that C# has taken all the best features from F# and now development has slowed down. I don't know how true that is. It's also just some irrational anti Microsoft bias, even though I know .NET runs fine on Linux now, the idea still felt weird to me. I suspect if I'd actually tried F# I would have stuck with it.

I have looked at the Fable compiler for F# which lets you compile F# to Rust which is very cool!