<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:38 PM Richard A. O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What's your opinion of F#? It seems to be the language<br>
of choice for people who liked Caml but need to take advantage<br>
of multiple cores. I haven't done any benchmarking; I doubt<br>
that it could match OCaml in raw speed.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have not used it enough to have an opinion (yet). Were I to communicate a lot with the .NET platform, I'd probably pick it because it has a null value and this is a necessity when talking to C# I'm told.</div><div><br></div><div>Given that it runs under a pretty powerful JIT, it could perform really well for a lot of tasks I think.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">My "dream" would be an industry-supported parallel MLton :P<br></div></div>