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		christophilus 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator F# is excellent. It’s tooling, ecosystem, and compile times are the reason I don’t use it. I learned it alongside OCaml, and OCaml’s compilation speed spoiled me. It is indeed a shame that F# never became a first class citizen.

cosmos64 5 months ago [–]

Lots of this, especially the tooling and ecosystem, improved considerably in the last couple of years.

OCaml is a great language, as are others in the ML family. Isabelle is the first language that has introduced the |> pipe character, I think.

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