Type providers for one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156509.aspx ht... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

bjg on Jan 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: .NET Fiddle adds F#

Type providers for one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156509.aspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Tomas-Petricek-How-F-Learned-...

_random_ on Jan 16, 2014 [–]

Anything specific on F# applied to Web API?

bunderbunder on Jan 16, 2014 | [–]

F# has asynchronous workflows, which is a nice API for task parallelism built on computation expressions, which are sort of tamed monads.

That edge dulled quite a bit with C# 5.0 and async/await, though.

Consider applying for YC's Fall 2025 batch! Applications are open till Aug 4
Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact