<div dir="ltr">I would love to see an Elm like language on the beam too, but I don't expect to see a first-class language of that type soon.<div><br></div><div>Zach</div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aemtlc3NpbkBnbWFpbC5jb20%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=f367a842-3c86-481f-8f3d-a5cb64241e98"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Goertzen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.goertzen@gmail.com" target="_blank">daniel.goertzen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">How does Alpaca compare to F#/Ocaml? After tasting some Rust and Elm, working in Erlang makes me a bit nervous too. My dream is to see a BEAM ML-like achieve Elixir stature.<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:57 AM Karl Nilsson <<a href="mailto:kjnilsson@gmail.com" target="_blank">kjnilsson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 at 12:41 Jesper Louis Andersen <<a href="mailto:jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.<wbr>com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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" target="_blank">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></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><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></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:13px">F# doesn't typically have any speed advantages of any other .NET languages and in every comparison I've seen to OCaml it has performed worse. If anything the allocation costs induced by a functional first programming style means it is typically a bit slower than the equivalent C# code (also there is no goto).</span><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">As a language F# is the nicest I've ever used substantially. I find it easy (and fun) to write reasonably correct code in. Also I hardly ever fear refactoring (compared to erlang where I break out in cold sweats even for code bases that pass dialyzer).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>I even like it so much I've started hacking on an fsharp to core erlang compiler. (<a href="https://github.com/kjnilsson/fez" target="_blank">https://github.com/kjnilsson/<wbr>fez</a>). </div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"></div><div class="gmail_quote">My "dream" would be an industry-supported parallel MLton :P<br></div></div>
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