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To me, F# is the pragmatic functional language with the most appeal, but being on .NET maybe it’s not even niche.



It kind of is, to .NET developers.

Although Microsoft has made it from Microsoft Research into official Visual Studio, it has been mostly an up hill fight to keep it there, while .NET languages group mostly cares about C# and VB, and to certain extent C++/CLI for integration with Windows APIs.

F# when taken into account by management, comes always after those three.

Most of the Visual Studio tooling for C# and VB isn't available to F# projects, you are supposed to do it manually, e.g. GUI designers, EF database to code generation, .NET 5 code generators.




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