Stylish F# 6
by Kit Eason · first published 2021
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Why HN recommends it
An introduction to F# that teaches idiomatic style. It suits learning the language well and pairs with domain modeling books, especially for developers new to ML-family languages.
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…has a lot of blog posts on how to think functionally and how to use F# for domain modeling. Compositional IT has a lot of good blog posts on how they use F# to solve real world problems. Kit Eason's Stylish F# is a good book.
on “F# is gaining independence from .NET” ↗Several other books that are good have been mentioned, I'll throw in one more, Stylish f# 6 by Kit Eason. He does a good job covering things and it covers features up through the .NET 6 version of F# so less stuff to learn once you're done with it.
on “A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking” ↗…programming and is out of date every now and then with changes to F# that's happened) * Expert F# 4.0 by Don Syme and others (contains a lot of nice things by the designer of F# One of the latest books is Stylish F# 6: Crafting Elegant Functional Code for .NET 6 by Kit Eason. I have the first edition but haven't read it. My personal recommendation is to take the approach of type/domain driven design. That is, I start…
on “OCaml at First Glance” ↗