Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language

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  • CPython

    The Python programming language

  • fsharp.org

    The F# Software Foundation website

  • Oh yeah. A key hindrance of F# is that MS treats it like a side project even though it's probably their secret weapon, and a lot of the adopters are dotnet coders who already know the basics so the on-boarding is less than ideal.

    https://fsharp.org/ is the best place to actually start.

    https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is the standard recommendation from there but there's finally some good youtube and other content out there.

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  • roc

    A fast, friendly, functional language. Work in progress!

  • Their FAQ is an eminently reasonable breakdown of their choices:

    https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/FAQ.md

    I don't fully agree with all of the reasoning, but it's a reasonable position to stake.

  • Carp

    A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

  • Carp - https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp - "A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications." where it's "Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood".

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