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Would be interesting to see actual stats in F# usage which I doubt are relatively available. Given the reaction to this post from what is an old article there's still probably an underground interest in the language and some use in general. People seem to have built strong views on it either way. Especially with some posters admitting they use it professionally with a closed source culture (finance, insurance, etc). Most metrics would not be accurate given interoperability with C# - e.g Google searching I would typically look up C# code and port it for example.

Maybe it doesn't need to thrive for everyone; maybe it just needs to continue being useful for the people who employ it and add value. That's probably OK. They could be just busy building stuff instead of blogging, especially if the community is mostly compromised of senior developers (10 years +).