Hijacking the thread (bear with me).
Is f# a good language to work with in Linux servers? Is possible? Would you recommend it?
Is f# a good language to work with in Linux servers? Is possible? Would you recommend it?
It's also worth noting that .NET Core is not only cross platform, but an extremely performant runtime which really hits the ceiling in various benchmarks https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=...
app.Run(async context => { await context.Response.WriteAsync("Hello, World!"); });
Is F# still the red-headed step-child of Core?
Last I fiddled with it F# was looking pretty unloved, but to be fair C# was still having a hard time with Core itself.
Yup. Although this doesn't really come into play with server code in my experience. I don't imagine I'd want to deal with it writing WPF / UWP things though where language support is more important
Even then I might just write the business logic in F# and glue things together with C#
As the article points out, there never has been any visual forms designer type stuff for F#, so if you're writing a GUI app with F#, it's best to wrap it in a C# shell anyway.
Which is fine, because you wanted to separate your core application logic from the GUI anyway, right?
> I might just write the business logic in F# and glue things together with C#
It's a perfectly reasonable way to go.
The only difficulty is that it simplifies things if you don't try to do all the fancy FP stuff at the boundary between the F# and C# parts of the app. While there are ways to pass, say, a tuple from F# to C# and cope with it on the C# side, it's better to limit types at this interface to things both languages support as first-class citizens: arrays, objects, simple scalars, etc.