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I'm going to make a prediction. In less than five years, Microsoft is going to give up on C# even on the backend, in favor of multiple languages such as Typescript/Javascript, Rust, Go and even Java. You're going to see them writing their newer backends primarily in Typescript and Rust. #dotnet #programming
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modulux
modulux
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What about F#? If they want something with good type discipline that's still sort of familiar, they have that option too. I hope your predictions bears out.
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mohaneds
mohaneds
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They do yeah, but functional programming doesn't appear to be popular even at Microsoft. The good news though is that F# isn't tied to the CLR, and due to it's excellent compile-time checks and lack of runtime code generation, can be transpiled to JS or anything Microsoft wants.
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mohaneds
mohaneds
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Granted, that's still not FP, especially since we're still not isolating side-effects, but it's an awesome start.
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modulux
modulux
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It gets close at least. Though of course FP has different definitions. I do think Rust has made non-FP people aware of a lot of the advantages though, and it is good.
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mohaneds
mohaneds
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Yup. I always advise people to check out OCaml, the closest thing we have to Rust with a tracing GC.
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modulux
modulux
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Same same. I like it, though it feels a bit old and wrinkly in bits... and the tooling is a bit weird. Unfortunately I think it's hard to find anyone using it in the wild.
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