Seeing through the F# fan boy lies
As my regular reader will know, I love anything shiny and new, and so was intrigued when I came across F#. When I was an undergraduate (some 25 years ago, ulp!), I played around with Prolog, and enjoyed the different approach to programming it offered.
However, as my time in front of the computer is at a premium, my F# learning started off with reading books and blog posts late away from the computer, usually last thing at night, and not actually doing any coding. Like most C# developers who come across F#, my initial reaction (other than “Hey, that’s shiny and new, I want to learn it!â€) was “Why?†If you search around for terms like “why f#†and “c# vs f#†you’ll find that this is a very common question.
The problem is that the answers aren’t very good. Well, let’s be blunt, there are a lot of lies out there.