Why Every Day as a Developer Would Be Easier with F#
summary
Small company with four devs rewrites the calendar module in about a month and then shifts to writing all new backend modules in F#; codebase ends up as roughly 30 C# projects and 5 F# projects. F# brings computation expressions (async/result/option), discriminated unions, pipe/composition operators that remove plumbing, give deep equality, and make happy‑path coding readable. Tooling includes Fantomas for autoformatting, FS toolkit and Ply/task for workflows, Dapper/ASP.NET/Polly for ecosystem interop, and MSBuild for CI; the switch reduces certain classes of bugs and eases refactoring.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Simplicity in code
- 3:13Where C# really shines
- 5:12Everything is an expression
- 10:29Equality for free
- 12:28This or that - nothing else
- 18:23Left to right, top to bottom
- 21:19Some F# basics
- 36:32Coding conventions
- 40:04Type inference
- 42:08Experience after 12 months
- 43:45Wrap up
- 45:12Q&A
