Comment by FrustratedMonky
12 hours ago
F# is one of the biggest 'What could have beens'. Great language, that just didn't hit the right time, or reach critical mass of the gestalt of the community.
12 hours ago
F# is one of the biggest 'What could have beens'. Great language, that just didn't hit the right time, or reach critical mass of the gestalt of the community.
I convinced one boss to let me spike out a project with it. I was in love with OCaml at the time. OCaml's docs are... I'm just going to say it, they're terrible. F# on the other hand, has fantastic docs. In the end, the only real gripe I had was the significant whitespace. I'm just not a fan.
It uses far less tokens than C#, so watch this space...
Ml-family languages (and frankly, all natively functional languages) are just incredibly terse and information-dense second only to stuff like APL. And yet when written idiomatically and with good object and type naming they are surprisingly readable and writeable.
'Twas a bad idea to train LLMs on the corpus of leaky, verbose C and C++ first instead of on these strict, strongly-typed, highly structural languages.
Care to explain? Pattern matching, type inference, etc.?
Various investigations have found it to be one of the most token efficient statically typed programming languages
https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages...
It's all about the goddamned machines.. since F# is terse, they figure agent-generated F# code is cheaper.
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