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You don't have to use asp.net directly in F# - there's been a long-standing library wrapping it in a more functional aesthetic with Giraffe: https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe
Not to discourage you or anything - always good to see alternatives. Personally, for FP web programming, the closer to the "your server as a function" ideal the better - so I'd prefer Giraffe in this case, for things like the router being an HttpHandler instead of being a property on the app. It's just way more intuitive from an FP standpoint and produces neater, more self-contained code, IMO.
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> Every time I tried to write something quickly, I often had to choose between a heavily functional programming oriented frameworks or extremely tedious ASP.NET Core.
I had the exact same sentiment last year. made https://wiz.run/
I hated going through all the microsoft dotnet docs. Wanted something like this: https://wiz.run/api/
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This is really nice. For comparison, this is what using ASP.NET directly in F# is like:
https://github.com/darklang/dark/blob/main/fsharp-backend/sr...
