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It's an interesting project, but in my 6+ years of Enterprise .NET development, I've yet to work in a single shop that released a production .NET application that wasn't written in C# or VB.NET. Even F# seems to be very rarely deployed.

It's hard to get excited about any new CLR-based language development when clearly the broader .NET community and the customer base could care less.

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They're out there - we embed IronPython in our C# application, and are looking into using F# for some of the financial reporting our application creates. It is rare, but there are definitely uses to having multiple languages available on the CLR (and DLR).

This is probably a fair point about the "enterprise .NET" community, which is by nature very conservative and closely aligned to core Microsoft technologies where the guarantees of support are strongest and the developer pool the largest.

However we as a smaller shop have used F# on a couple of projects within the last year -- to embed an expression engine within an analytics product, and for the parser/analyser in our Sass plugin for Visual Studio. But I know I'd have struggled to get that technology choice into the last enterprise environment I worked in. So the lack of uptake may be more to do with the culture of "enterprise .NET" shops, more than the "broader .NET community."

Well put. When I wrote "broader .NET community", I was mostly speaking to the vast majority of .NET developers, which are unfortunately stuck in typical Enterprise environments.

There are definitely small shops out there doing interesting things and I love hearing about them!

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