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Preface: I really love what you guys are doing but...

I really don't think you guys appreciate how many Scala/Clojure/Haskell devs would love to work in F# but can't because of the tooling.

Also equating the type of work being done with C# to the type of work being done F# by just comparing developer numbers is incredibly naive.

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I think they do, and this is why they giving it any resources at all while admitting they only see it used by tens of thousands, compared to millions using c#

At the end of the day, MS is a big corp, decisions needs to be justified and supported by both quantitative and qualitative measures

Also on the bright side, in programming, more developers doesn't really mean it will evolve faster, actually with a smaller team f# may evolve faster, it this wasn't true no language other than c# or java would have stood a chance

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