F# for Fun and Profit
fsharpforfunandprofit.comF# is a really good practical FP language.
- Great real IDE support (JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio)
- Large ecosystem of packages (F# is a .NET language, so you can just use all Nuget packages out there.)
- The language is stable and only gets small updates. There is no Scala 3 scenario on the horizon.
- It is fast, multithreaded (.NET TPL) and cross platform.
- Great for building cross platform UI’s with Avalonia.
The author of this website also wrote a fantastic book on functional application architectures. I think everyone can benefit from reading it, even if you're not using a functional programming language.
https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...
Its a fantastic book, one of my favourites!
Thank you! Just saved it on OReilly.
His series on parser combinators is one of my favorite technical articles/series on any subject. The property-based testing one is also excellent, going into some of the real practical advantages and tradeoffs of that technique.
I've been meaning to read his book for a while now, maybe it's the time. Anyway great site and I don't even know F#. Have never written a line of it, though I have used ocaml a lot so I consider F# heads comrades.
Best guide for learning functional programming.