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Because you love using Microsoft's shitty technologies, but also want to be completely unemployable?

It's pretty baseless to claim that modern dotnet is inherently shitty. They've made tremendous strides in the dotnet core era.

F# making you unemployable is debateable, but I don't see what makes F# any less employable than most other FP languages. They have some niche applications that make it useful rarely, but when they're useful its a terrific tool for the job. F#'s ability to interop with the rest of the dotnet ecosystem positions it better than most functional languages for business usecases.

I'm sure Microsoft has developed a lot of bad tech, but by and large their languages have been great. msvc c++ compiler as a possible exception, but f# in particular is excellent.

I've spent my entire career, 22 years, primarily in C#.

I'm quite employable.

> Because you love using Microsoft's shitty technologies

If we go by the joke in gp, this is you.

I don't have any problem with the idea that Microsoft's technologies are "shitty" after all the response of my work laptop to its mandatory Windows 11 upgrade was a non-copyable diagnostic message with an opaque code in it which, as I understand it, is basically the equivalent of "Huh, oops, maybe try again?" and my colleague spent a week trying to uh, share data from a "Sharepoint" table.

But .NET's CLR doesn't seem especially shitty. It's not awesome, I don't feel that RIIR urge when I work with C# and I probably wouldn't with F# either but it's fine, it's like Java again, or maybe Go or Python. It's fine. I don't hate it and that's enough.

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