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Again about F#:

- F# is poor for relational databases. (Also, I try several ORM-ish/type providers but only "work" for sql server, and in windows). - F# is poor for web projects and - F# is poor for mobile development.

I'm sticking with F# because I'm that much against C-based syntax, not because I logically noted that C# is the only language that truly matters in .NET and I waste more time I wish to trying to solve everything with F#. Also, I'm a solo developer.

BTW, I use python, F#, swift, obj-c, delphi and have used Visual FoxPro and others languages that are smaller and expected to have limited support. Among all of this, F# is the one that cause more trouble (because tooling and ecosystem).

But is just a joy when things work. And the massive reduction in code pay for it. It only need some love to polish around the edges.

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I am curious whether you think F# is poor as a language for web/mobile development, or is it the F# tooling for such development that is lacking?

Tooling. And that some stuff (ie: c# centric classes) not interop as nicely (for example, expando objects, if I remember well...).

well, some options for mobile

- xamarin works with f# and support it: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/fsharp/f...

- use react native (with fable to transpile f# -> js): https://github.com/fable-compiler/fable-react_native-demo

for web you can use:

- suave (http://suave.io)

- aspnet core (or aspnet core mvc)

both works with .NET, .NET Core and Mono

I'm aware of all that options, and have tested them. In fact, I have tried to use xamarin+f# for mobile for a year.

Now is a better (even have F# templates!) but is clearly a second class citizen.

Is not the case of Core that F# integration is black magic, or this has changed in last release? All apis work now for F#? For web I try like 6 months ago and only suave was more or less usable (however, is hard to find how solve some stuff. NOTHING (in the open source options I test) is close to Flask/django in this case, and asp.net was sub-par when I test it.)

I also agree that F# need more push from MS. My complaints, like much others, are about things that just need more polish and tooling - and if it get more competitive in performance with C#, better -. So I think is good to see this .NET strategy and think F# have a good future, to the point that F# is the only reason I come back to .NET.

Is only, I wish not just a good future. I want a AMAZING future!

Consider contributing to a type provider for the database engine of your choice, I use SQL Server and F# is a better choice than C# in this regard anyday because of the type provider library that was created by community.

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