Has anyone worked with this language? What has been your experience? I would like to jump in on this and get started. Any tips?
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Has anyone worked with this language? What has been your experience? I would like to jump in on this and get started. Any tips?
MSDN, for docs. F# is included in VS2010 by default... Here's a link to their code documentation
Well, no link, but I do know that it even comes into SharpDevelop :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
I was just curious how development worked in it. Was it difficult? Was there an increase in development speed? What about the number of issues/bugs that cropped up? Is it easy to scale?
Read up on functional programming.Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
My experience was that F# required a fair amount of adjustment in thinking. I write in (about) a dozen languages and most of them were very easy to pick up (if you understand any procedural or OO language, you understand them all, mostly). F# was a notable exception; it took significantly longer to learn.
However! The language is quite interesting and I enjoyed programming in it. Purely from the perspective of nice functional programming languages, I might recommend Haskell or Erlang. The major benefit of F# over those is access to the entire .NET library.
I found this wikibook to be extremely helpful: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming