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RFCs and docs related to the F# language design process, see https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions to submit ideas

15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2016-11-24 · latest 2026-04-08

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  1. …has since gotten Functional State machines which make many computation expressions more efficient ( https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0... ). Been there a while. I actually think F# has received some "love" over…
    comment by throw234234234 · 2026-04-08 · in Union types in C# 15
  2. …There's an entire CE extension to specifically enable this kind of convenience and flexibility too: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0... None of this is possible in C#, at least without jumping through many hoops…
    comment by neonsunset · 2025-04-02 · in Why F#?
  3. …grok the culture of F#. You may look at more context in the discussions pertaining to the RFC: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-4.1... I think those are the main factors: * "Keep It Simple Stupid" principle *…
    comment by smoothdeveloper · 2024-12-22 · in Fault Report – and alternative to Result in F#
  4. …* with notable exception being "resumable code" which is the basis of task { } CE and similar: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0... If you want to get back to F#, it has gotten really easy to do it because .NET…
    comment by neonsunset · 2024-12-03 · in 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
  5. …scenarios). [0] [0] https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/581 [1] https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0...
    comment by shakna · 2024-11-25 · in OCaml Syntax Sucks (2016)
  6. Damn. It's only for nulls: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/RFCs/FS-10... Wonder if they will generalize: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/RFCs/FS-10...
    comment by jfausdfwsdfa · 2024-11-10 · in What's New in F# 9
  7. …is supposed to be used, after all) and not a niche feature that is at risk of being deprecated. https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-6.0...
    comment by 110bpm · 2024-04-27 · in Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
  8. …smarts for Nullable Reference Types, but it has been proposed and prototyped, at least [1]. [1] https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/RFCs/FS-10...
    comment by WorldMaker · 2023-04-25 · in My thoughts on OCaml
  9. …some reason I cant submit the Url with the specific link to the Drawbacks section, but it is here https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-7.0...
    comment by zengid · 2022-11-11 · in Drawbacks of adding 'Interfaces with static abstract members' in F#
  10. I think it will get better in F# 5.1, which adds native C# Task support... https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/RFCs/FS-...
    comment by Serow225 · 2020-12-05 · in Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler
  11. …of the modern history is shaping up from a language perspective, check out the Language RFC repo: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/
    comment by phillipcarter · 2019-01-11 · in The Early History of F# [pdf]
  12. For library, see https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/FSharp-4...
    comment by toyotaboy · 2017-08-16 · in The Problem with F# Evangelism
  13. …fsharp ( http://fsharp.org/ ) was and is already driven by community, and lang decision are in repo https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design by community and lead by @dsyme And you should also check dotnet foundation pulse and community…
    comment by enricosada · 2016-11-24 · in Open Source .NET – 2 years later