Comment by airstrike

3 months ago

This rings true to me as well. I'm not sure what I get out of F# that I can't get from Rust, unless you specifically want .NET, which I don't.

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DeathArrow  3 months ago

You get speed of development, productivity, lots of libraries. You get something that is easy to learn and understand.

  • airstrike  3 months ago

    Lots of libraries if you want .NET, right? But if you don't, Rust has way more libraries

    Speed of development is debatable. I think you can be pretty fast with both.

    Easy to learn I concede but it gets easier with time, until it becomes very easy

    • loxs  3 months ago

      Having written a moderately big project in OCaml which I tried porting to F# and later did port to Rust, to me Rust feels much faster to develop than either OCaml or F#, especially once you figure out the "core", adding more features is a breeze. Refactoring is also easier. Not to mention that reading Rust is much easier than reading OCaml and coming back to the project after a year feels very easy. I think that I have less bugs with Rust than with OCaml. And the end product's core ended up being ~3-4 times faster to execute in Rust.