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What's surprising is that Scala/Java basically has the same issues, but Scala seems to be more popular due to early adoption by several industry actors (Twitter IIRC).

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Scala is also far closer to Java than F# is to C#. You can write Scala code that looks almost exactly like Java code.

I think the strength of the C# language vs. Java is a factor in this.

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