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Tuesday, 9 April 2019

(Follow-up to) Attracting more developers to F#

Most of the feedback I received was positive, but not all of it, and I now see that my post had some minor problems, and a couple of major ones.

Friday, 5 April 2019

Attracting more developers to F#

The least effective way to promote F# adoption is the one that comes most naturally.

Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Non-idiomatic F#

I claim that writing non-functional F# works out WAY better than writing functional C#.

Monday, 5 January 2015

Why your F# evangelism isn't working

Yes, F# has a seven year head start, but Swift will cross the chasm first. This has nothing to do with the relative merits of these two languages. The simple fact is that C# is kinda great and Objective-C is kinda dreadful.

Friday, 10 October 2014

On F# and Object Oriented Guilt

I'm writing a key-value database in F#. Because clearly the world needs another key-value database, right?

Monday, 8 September 2014

An F# newbie using SQLite

Like I said in a tweet on Friday, I'm guessing everybody's first 10,000 lines of F# are crap. That's a lot of bad code I need to write, so I figure maybe I better get started.