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raincoleyesterday at 1:29 PM1 replyview on HN

> Try teaching someone C# nowadays. Completely impossible. Really, I wish they would've given F# just a tenth of the love that C# got over the years

If they actually put effort in F#, it would have reached "unteachable" state already :)


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NanoCoasteryesterday at 1:54 PM

Haha, yeah, maybe :)

I would've loved an F# that found a way to improve on the performance issues, especially when using computation expressions. That and, either, a deeper integration of .NETs native OOP subtyping, or some form of OCaml-like module system, would have been enough to make it an almost perfect language for my tastes.

Obviously, these are big, and maybe impossible, issues. But Microsoft as a whole never really dedicated enough resources to find out. I feel for the people still working on it, their work is definitely appreciated :)

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