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Comment by chrissanz | Hacker News Reader

Instead of developing a language similar to Java (C#) or similar to Ruby/Python (F#) or investing in companies / ideas they were not successful at (Social Network / MSN 10 years ago), I think they need to bring back the "Bill Gates" innovative spirit... what's the language of choice 5 years from now? what are the hurdles most developers are going through today and how are they solving them?

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F# is not like Ruby/Python at ALL. F# is statically typed for one, variables are by default immutable, let me give you an example, tell me what you think the following prints?

  let somefunc() =
    let i = 10
    i = 11
  printfn "%s" (somefunc().ToString())

it prints "false", not 11.

F# is a lot like ocaml, which it was syntax compatible with for many years.

Most developers in the non-web sphere are dealing with multi-core and async issues. F# solves these problems very elegantly.

yes, very true. closer to Erlang or Caml instead. I guess I see the value for a functional programming language written on top of the CRL

F# is not very similar to Ruby/Python, it's closer to OCaml.

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