The primary reason I like F# in general is that is a language that has helped me be a better programmer, it has improved the way I see and work with code, taught me how to program in a safer way (i.e. prevent null/undefined from even being part of the workflow), how to write smaller and more meaningful functions, how and when to use mutability and when to hide it so consumers can still program in a safe way. Overall it is a fantastic language that helps me and my brain to write better, safer and simpler programs with less effort and resulting bugs.
In the case for Frontend development, it is due to the reasons above and for the same reason some people like to go full-stack with JavaScript using a language you're proficient and that has type safety waranties as F# is just a very good option.
If you like typescript because it helps you write safer code and avoid many javascript's dynamic nature pitfalls and similar features, then F# is a very good language to check out
if you want to have a check on the language itself I'd suggest to read my other articles on F# specially this series, there's also this wonderful book zaid-ajaj.github.io/the-elmish-boo... which can be of use to learn more although it might be a little bit outdated in some areas but regardless it is a very good resource
on twitter there's a whole community aroun the #fsharp hashtag, there's an official F# slack you can check fsharp.org/guides/slack/ and also we have an unofficial discord chat discord.gg/R6n7c54 where you can ask questions about the language and someone will try to give you some answers
I can't say an exact number for sure, it took a while because I had a really hardwired OOP (Java style) thought process but since I was just doing projects and writing code here and there for fun one day I was already doing bigger project.
However within 3 months I already felt quite productive with F# even if I wasn't good at it so there's that
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Hello @merthod thanks for asking
The primary reason I like F# in general is that is a language that has helped me be a better programmer, it has improved the way I see and work with code, taught me how to program in a safer way (i.e. prevent null/undefined from even being part of the workflow), how to write smaller and more meaningful functions, how and when to use mutability and when to hide it so consumers can still program in a safe way. Overall it is a fantastic language that helps me and my brain to write better, safer and simpler programs with less effort and resulting bugs.
In the case for Frontend development, it is due to the reasons above and for the same reason some people like to go full-stack with JavaScript using a language you're proficient and that has type safety waranties as F# is just a very good option.
If you like typescript because it helps you write safer code and avoid many javascript's dynamic nature pitfalls and similar features, then F# is a very good language to check out
if you want to have a check on the language itself I'd suggest to read my other articles on F# specially this series, there's also this wonderful book zaid-ajaj.github.io/the-elmish-boo... which can be of use to learn more although it might be a little bit outdated in some areas but regardless it is a very good resource
on twitter there's a whole community aroun the
#fsharphashtag, there's an official F# slack you can check fsharp.org/guides/slack/ and also we have an unofficial discord chat discord.gg/R6n7c54 where you can ask questions about the language and someone will try to give you some answersThanks for the thoughtful reply. Was it long util you got good in it?
I can't say an exact number for sure, it took a while because I had a really hardwired OOP (Java style) thought process but since I was just doing projects and writing code here and there for fun one day I was already doing bigger project.
However within 3 months I already felt quite productive with F# even if I wasn't good at it so there's that