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What is the strongest option for functional programming then? I love Clojure as a language but it's almost impossible to find decent jobs with it in my area.

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Scala is probably the most pragmatic functional programming language to get a job in. It's on the JVM and you can use all the Java libraries, and it also lets you fall back to an imperative style if you need to.

That sounds exactly the same as F# (except there might be more jobs in scala).

F# is on .NET CLR and you can use all the .NET libraries, and it lets you fall back to an imperative style if you need to!

Try to use EF, WCF, UWP, WPF from F#.

EF isn't really needed with Dapper and the available SQL type providers. Even still it's totally naturally to have a C# project holding the base EF stuff which you reference from your F# projects

Try to use that argument to sell F# to the large majority of .NET shops.

The vast majority of .Net shops would run shrieking when faced with F# code. I still run into people regularly that shun the var keyword for type inference in C# because they think it is actually the evil old VB6 Variant type.

Yep that was kind of my point.

> you can use all the .NET libraries

did you try it?

Hint: there is a lot of things required before F# could use latest WinUI or WPF

I wouldn't call those libraries. If you have something that's actually just a library, using it from F# should not be a problem.

Well, in these cases it's very similar to F#, except it's based on .NET and has different syntax. I guess the main point of the comment above is lacking IDE support - refactoring tools don't exist and autocompletion is also not excelent. Do you know some decent tools for Scala? I don't know much about it, but it could be a very good language if IntelliJ had full support for that.

IntelliJ does have have full support for Scala (through an official plugin): https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/discover-intellij-idea-f...

What about remote work?

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