This is such a weird example to me, mostly because I've yet to come across a language that doesn't have awkward gotchas, and that one is one of the easiest ("ah yeah...= is only assignment in a let..weird"). The article cited ends with -
> That’s it for now. Hopefully, some of these issues will be addressed in future versions of F#, though as I said, most of this is simply annoying / inconsistent. It shouldn’t stop anyone from using this awesome language
and as other have pointed out, some of this is complaining about features or not working with the language. File order matters should probably exist in more languages (the amount of debugging/code reading time it saves is insane) and complaining about explicit typing because it's slowing down your contest code is just eye rollingly silly to me.
> That’s it for now. Hopefully, some of these issues will be addressed in future versions of F#, though as I said, most of this is simply annoying / inconsistent. It shouldn’t stop anyone from using this awesome language
and as other have pointed out, some of this is complaining about features or not working with the language. File order matters should probably exist in more languages (the amount of debugging/code reading time it saves is insane) and complaining about explicit typing because it's slowing down your contest code is just eye rollingly silly to me.