On: F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core (2018)

[platz]

well C# 8.0 introduced async streams, for example

[chusk3 → platz]

Yes, and the F# library for asynchronous sequence processing had support added for them shortly thereafter (https://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq/library...)

[phillipcarter → platz]

It's worth noting that this isn't an "IL feature", but a new type that includes some knowledge of the type shape in the C# compiler. The existing F# package for async streams understands the new type, and it "just works" in F#.

[adgasf → platz]

F# allows you to implement such features as libraries using computation expressions.

[louthy → adgasf]

So does C# with LINQ [1]. I guess C# language development tends to lean more on concrete syntax than libraries, which is a shame, but it is possible. It's also a shame LINQ can't be extended like computation expressions.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/master/LanguageE...

[dgudkov → platz]

The async model in F# is entirely different from C#. Not sure if an equivalent of C# async streams would make sense in it.