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Mads Torgerson (the head of the Roslyn project; C#/VB Compiler) showed once a slide, that c# devs are counted in millions, VB devs in 100k steps and F# devs in 10k steps.

F# is a wonderful thing for the ecosystem, but practically of no importance regards priorities.

IMHO: To make UWP and F# a thing, UWP need to be remodeled to a primary react like system. That however will never be a story, considering the state driven UI development MS is doing for decades.

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So when they purposefully dismiss F# and say it's just useful for scientific and engineering (with a touch of finance) they find they don't get much adoption from general business developers?

F#, even if used as a better C#, is still a win. C# has improved a ton since F# appeared, but it's still clunky. Microsoft should have had a push, F# for everyone, but this is the company that had to be dragged into generics (by the F# people) so I don't know what we'd expect.

All F# needs is real committment to level tooling. Instead it's an afterthought. It's enough to give even me pause when starting a project.

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