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xvilka on Feb 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tour of F#

I wonder, what are the pluses of F# that missing in more mature and widely adopted OCaml? Why to create a clone of good language? With porting opam to Windows platform [1], along with improving the Unicode support [2] in it I'd say it has a bigger potential in this field.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191

[2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/153

spiffytech on Feb 24, 2017 [–]

Pluses include mulithreaded concurrency and access to .NET libraries (including interop to/from your employer's proprietary C# code).

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