Nominative, not normative. Nominative means "by name", i.e. you reference types by names. A structural type (aka anonymous type) does not have a name, so cannot be referenced.

What's the problem asking experienced developer to learn F#? That is course assuming they do not refuse the work?

I've heard this before, and frankly, it is not something I recognise.

A few years back, I was the VP of Engineering at a (now well-known) startup that had chosen to use .NET (on Azure, which is a whole other story). Everything was written in F# by default, _occasionally_ branching out to C# or C++ if it was proven that F# was unsuitable for the job.

We managed to hire a very large team in comparatively little time - and because people who apply for F# jobs either know it (indicating someone interested in looking forwards in the industry), or were interested in learning it (we provided training), quality was better and waste was substantially less overall than I have seen elsewhere in a rapidly scaling team.

Despite what Microsoft may think, F# is the crown jewel of the .NET world, and it is a mistake to sideline it over fears such as this.

What do you base that on? I have had no problem with F# and asp.net core. Just look at safe stack, it uses saturn or giraffe which in turn runs on asp.net. https://safe-stack.github.io/

In a previous role some time back used F# on top of ASP.NET Core. It isn't that bad and people thought the code was quite clean in the end; we had dev's thinking going back to C# even with F# using vanilla ASP.NET would be a downgrade. There's ways to mitigate the pain of the C# specific API. We went the vanilla ASP.NET Core route (for Swashbuckle) and found only the Startup class (which could be replaced by functions in hindsight) and the Controllers (which were still clean code wise) needed to be classes. The rest (majority) of the program was typical F# code with an interfaced object usually created via an F# object expression put into ASP.NET's dependency injection. Helped to separate the web controllers from the logic layer anyway and keep the ASP.NET code to a minimal. Most of the program was written in F# style with ASP.NET used just as a web server for functions basically.

There's just few public examples on how to do this cleanly so people kinda have to work it out themselves which I think could be improved.