F# is one of the biggest 'What could have beens'. Great language, that just didn't hit the right time, or reach critical mass of the gestalt of the community.

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nbevans 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It uses far less tokens than C#, so watch this space...

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delta_p_delta_x 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Ml-family languages (and frankly, all natively functional languages) are just incredibly terse and information-dense second only to stuff like APL. And yet when written idiomatically and with good object and type naming they are surprisingly readable and writeable.

'Twas a bad idea to train LLMs on the corpus of leaky, verbose C and C++ first instead of on these strict, strongly-typed, highly structural languages.

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nodra 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Care to explain? Pattern matching, type inference, etc.?

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Nelkins 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Various investigations have found it to be one of the most token efficient statically typed programming languages

https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages...

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balakk 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's all about the goddamned machines.. since F# is terse, they figure agent-generated F# code is cheaper.

	▲	KurtMueller an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I like to think of F# as concise.