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I found it to be quite pleasant to work with.

Context: I’m mostly working as an iOS Developer, but I do have some experience with other languages that are not Swift/Obj-C. I did not have any prior experience with the dotnet ecosystem, though.

When I chose F#/.NET Core for my side project 2 years ago, I was looking for something similar to Swift in terms of pragmatism and reliability (big chunk of available standard/first party libraries), but more mature as an API technology and slightly more functional.

Why more functional? Because I was interested in it. I’m not a religious person.

F# ticked all the boxes. Most libraries you’ll find, that interact with the outside world, are basically functional wrappers around established, mature C# libraries. Those are either first party (ASP.NET Core) or “the standard” (Npgsql for interfacing with Postgres).

A couple of tools and libraries that I use, off the top of my head: Saturn, Npgsql.FSharp, FluentMigrator, NLog, Flurl