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I started out during the Node + JS revolution and I am more than certain I am seeing a similar level of innovation happening in F#. The community is titled towards more mathematicians and scientist, but mainstream adoption is right around the corner.

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I've been on an ASP.NET Core project full-time for a year. Lately, I find myself wondering "Would it be nicer to write this part in F#?" almost every day.

There's some inertia there simply because I keep thinking that the next person will hate me for forcing F# on them, but it's almost a siren call at this point... I might have to just pull the trigger and commit a .fs file.

Do it, the next person will thank you. If not immediately then within days of them learning F#.

Author here:

Go for it! Wiring up a new F# project is quite simple:

    dotnet new library -lang F# -o FSLib
    cd CSharpASPNETApp
    dotnet add reference ../FSLib/FSLib.fsproj

There are some templates in the .NET Core SDK for ASP.NET as well, so if folks are wondering if it's possible to use F# with ASP.NET Core, the answer is yes! There's even support for async controller actions using F# async expressions, so there's no need to do some of the more awkward interop between Async and Task.

> the next person will hate me for forcing F# on them

Look at it from this perspective: you might be able to hire the next person because you put some proper tools/stack for them to work with. :)

You should use Scott Wlaschin's informative site "F# for Fun and Profit". He has does a good job focusing on using F# for what he calls BLOBAs... boring line of business applications. I think F# would be great for your business logic.

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