F# for Fun and Profit

by _benj on 3/5/2025, 2:57:26 PM with 6 comments

  • by JaggerJo on 3/5/2025, 3:36:35 PM

    F# is a really good practical FP language.

    - Great real IDE support (JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio)

    - Large ecosystem of packages (F# is a .NET language, so you can just use all Nuget packages out there.)

    - The language is stable and only gets small updates. There is no Scala 3 scenario on the horizon.

    - It is fast, multithreaded (.NET TPL) and cross platform.

    - Great for building cross platform UI’s with Avalonia.

    https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI

  • by Nelkins on 3/5/2025, 3:56:27 PM

    The author of this website also wrote a fantastic book on functional application architectures. I think everyone can benefit from reading it, even if you're not using a functional programming language.

    https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...

  • by giraffe_lady on 3/5/2025, 10:15:03 PM

    His series on parser combinators is one of my favorite technical articles/series on any subject. The property-based testing one is also excellent, going into some of the real practical advantages and tradeoffs of that technique.

    I've been meaning to read his book for a while now, maybe it's the time. Anyway great site and I don't even know F#. Have never written a line of it, though I have used ocaml a lot so I consider F# heads comrades.

  • by rubenvanwyk on 3/5/2025, 3:46:47 PM

    Best guide for learning functional programming.