Download Link: http://zkessin.github.io/mostlyerlang/episodes/013_fsharp.mp3

Panel

• Bryan Hunter (@bryanhunter)
• Fred Hebert (@mononcqc)
• Yan Cui (@theburningmonk)
• Phillip Trelford (@ptrelford)

Main Program

Bryan Hunter: Which did you learn first Erlang or F#?

What attracted you to Erlang?

What attracted you to F#?

Today you’re in the elevator with 5,000 Erlang developers. What’s your elevator pitch for F# to Erlang developers?

About sweet spots… are these two languages good at the same things, or different things?

In what scenario would F# be an obvious choice?

In what scenario would Erlang be an obvious choice?

Are there scenarios where both F#/Erlang are obviously the wrong choice?

Is there a case for using F# and Erlang together?

How would you do that?
Sockets?
Message Queue?
Jan’s Filbert

F#, is opensource.
What does that mean?
Is it opensource like Erlang?
Or less so?
Is Microsoft’s role to F# similar to Ericsson’s role with Erlang?

Both the syntax and tooling of Erlang and F# scare off beginners. Do you agree? What can be done to help?

I’ve heard both Erlang and F# described as industrial languages. What does that mean?

What would a port of F# to the Erlang Runtime System be like?

Something interesting happened at Lambda Jam in Chicago.
It felt as if F# had been welcomed into the larger FP community as a peer (first class member). Was it a liminal moment? What will come of that?

Picks

• Jan:
• Fred: 2s Phone
• Fred: http://beamjs.org/
• Fred: http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
• Phillip: http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/progressive-f-tutorials-2013
• Phillip: http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/progressive-f-tutorials-nyc
• Bryan: The Future of Programming: http://vimeo.com/71278954
• Bryan: WorryDream (Brett Victor)