F#

[Adil]

F# is a language from Micro$oft (yes, the very same M$ that brought you wonders such as windows vista, windows 10, internet explorer, activex, vba, vb.net...)
It's designed primarily as a functional language (if you haven't heard of functional languages, go look them up, very nice), BUT, it interops very nicely with the .NET runtime, so you can use VB.NET and C# alongside F# code!

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Good tutorials here:

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I've been playing around with it recently and it's a breath of fresh air compared to stuff like Java, JS and C#

A few big boys like Credit Suisse use it in their applications. It's even been used to balance the generation schedule for the UK power station fleet (

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Thoughts/comments welcome

 

[TesoMayn]

And this is why you're #NotMyAdmin

 

[Adil]

And this is why you're #NotMyAdmin

excuse me for trying to keep a section alive
bastard

@JMS
@Sentinel

cowardly bastards

 

[treebeard]

I don't really have a need for it but sounds like Micr$oft's Kotlin lol.

I haven't picked up a new language in quite some time, considered Go and/or Rust recently.

 

[Adil]

I don't really have a need for it but sounds like Micr$oft's Kotlin lol.

I haven't picked up a new language in quite some time, considered Go and/or Rust recently.

It's more like the MS equivalent of Scala

Rust seems a bit pointless unless you're doing systems programming

 

[GarettM]

It's more like the MS equivalent of Scala

Rust seems a bit pointless unless you're doing systems programming

Why you shittin on Rust?

 

[Adil]

Why you shittin on Rust?

Because it's a mangled C
smh Garett I thought you were one of the good guys
SMH